{"id":1790651,"date":"2021-04-22T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790651"},"modified":"2021-04-22T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:56:32","slug":"bharat-mata-mandir-marble-map-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/04\/bharat-mata-mandir-marble-map-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Mata Mandir Marble Map of India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo<\/a> by Hiroki Ogawa. CC licence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was unaware of\u00a0Bharat Mata Mandir temple\u2019s map of an undivided India<\/a> until Mappery<\/em> pointed to it<\/a>. It\u2019s another one of those giant relief map installations, only this one is made of marble; it sits in the temple in lieu of an idol. India is shown undivided\u2014i.e., it doesn\u2019t show the post-partition boundaries\u2014because the temple was built in 1936.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was unaware of\u00a0Bharat Mata Mandir temple\u2019s map of an undivided India until Mappery pointed to it. It\u2019s another one of those giant relief map installations, only this one is made of marble; it sits… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[372,387],"class_list":["post-1790651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-big-maps","tag-india","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2107,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/whats-going-to-happen-to-the-boston-globes-marble-map-of-new-england\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790651,"position":0},"title":"What’s Going to Happen to the Boston Globe’s Marble Map of New England?","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The problem with big maps\u2014the Electric Map of Gettysburg, the B.C. 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