{"id":25797,"date":"2020-12-18T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/18\/going-the-extra-milestone-mumbai-preserves-remnants-of-colonial-past"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T02:00:15","slug":"going-the-extra-milestone-mumbai-preserves-remnants-of-colonial-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25797","title":{"rendered":"Going the extra milestone: Mumbai preserves remnants of colonial past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the decades many of the city\u2019s stone markers have been submerged in concrete, but a plan is underway to restore them<\/p>\n<p>Buried for years under Mumbai\u2019s new roads and ever-increasing layers of development, the British passion for cartography is set to rise up on the city\u2019s streets again thanks to a project to preserve its colonial milestones.<\/p>\n<p>When workers from Mumbai municipal corporation (BMC) were demolishing unauthorised buildings three years ago, they unearthed a basalt stone marker with a pyramidal top and a Roman numeral on it \u2013 a British milestone and one of 16 laid out in the early 19th century on the road between Horniman Circle and Sion, then the city\u2019s outer limit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/18\/going-the-extra-milestone-mumbai-preserves-remnants-of-colonial-past\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the decades many of the city\u2019s stone markers have been submerged in concrete, but a plan is underway to restore themBuried for years under Mumbai\u2019s new roads and ever-increasing layers of development, the British passion for cartography is set to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25799,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25797\/revisions\/25799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}