Originally Posted by GUWonder
I was easily entertained at the Taj Mahal a few months back when some Kashmiris were arguing with the ticket booth staff and gate entrance guards that Kashmir is a part of India and thus they should be charged the Indian rate (and be allowed to use the Indian rate ticket) despite not having ID with them.
(What they were saying in Kashmiri was even more interesting.
) At around the same time, a Pakistani delegation was also visiting the Taj and they got in for free while their family members got the Indian rates.
And the staff was telling the Kashmiris, that they weren't Indians??! That's a feather in the caps of the seperatists!
But you're right in that it is hard to implement such a policy considering how difficuilt it is to ethnically differentiate between people from within the subcontinent. I suppose the policy is meant essentially for western tourists who are distinctly "foreign"
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FWIW, NRIs are supposed to pay the non-Indian rates as well.