{"id":202059,"date":"2022-08-26T17:36:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202059"},"modified":"2022-08-26T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:06:26","slug":"anang-tal-lake-declared-monument-of-national-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anang-tal-lake-declared-monument-of-national-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Anang Tal lake declared monument of national importance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Anang Tal lake declared monument of national importance<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 25th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Anang Tal lake has been declared a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/monuments-in-india-issues-and-challenges\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monument of National Importance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through a gazette notification by the Ministry of Culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Anang Tal Lake?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in South Delhi. The lake is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">situated to the north of Jog Maya temple and approximately 500 metres to the northwest of Qutub Complex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is claimed to have been built by a Tomar King, Anangpal II in 1060 AD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is said to have been a place of a general resort, but now it is dried up and used for cultivation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also said Alauddin Khalji, in 1296-1316 AD, utilised the water of this tank when he built (Qutub) minar and extended the Qutub-ul-Islam mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Who was Anangpal II?<\/b><\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anangtals-cleaning-up-and-beautification-to-begin-next-week\/\">AnangTal\u2019s cleaning up and beautification to begin next week.<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAnang Tal lake declared monument of national importance\u201d published in Indian Express on 25th August 2022. What is the News? The Anang Tal lake has been declared a Monument of National Importance through a gazette notification by the Ministry of Culture. What is Anang Tal Lake? It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anang-tal-lake-declared-monument-of-national-importance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anang Tal lake declared monument of national importance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-202059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704805729},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}