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Zero Mile Stone Marathi: शून्य मैलाचा दगड is a monument locating the geographical center of India in the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra.The Zero Mile Stone was erected by the British who used this point to measure all the distances.The Zero Mile Stone consists of four horses and a pillar made up of sandstone.
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“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.”
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