Five nominations from India have been added to UNESCO's Tentative List of World Heritage, officials announced on September 30, 2026. The additions include four sites in Madhya Pradesh and a serial transnational proposal tracing the places linked to Satyagraha in India and South Africa. The Madhya Pradesh entries comprise the Bagh Cave Paintings, the Group of Temples of the Chambal Valley at Bateshwar, Padavali, and Kakarmath, Ginnorgarh Fort, and the Udayagiri hill, a rock-cut sacred ensemble developed mainly under Gupta patronage between the late 4th and early 5th centuries. Together with the India–South Africa Satyagraha proposal, the additions take India's UNESCO Tentative List to 78 sites. The Satyagraha proposal marks a notable diplomatic gesture: a cross-continental serial nomination connecting the landscapes of non-violent resistance in both countries. The Bagh caves, a group of nine rock-cut Buddhist caves on the Vindhyan slopes, stand out for their rare sandstone geology and surviving mural paintings, while Ginnorgarh Fort was the principal fortified capital of the erstwhile Raj Gond rulers. A site must first be placed on the Tentative List before it can be considered for World Heritage status. India's culture ministry celebrated the additions as a proud milestone, underscoring the country's strategy of steadily building its heritage portfolio on the path toward future inscriptions.