{"id":35575,"date":"2018-10-31T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35575"},"modified":"2018-11-15T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:19:39","slug":"the-unifier-of-modern-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-unifier-of-modern-india\/","title":{"rendered":"The unifier of modern India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/the-unifier-of-modern-india\/article25373105.ece\"><strong>The unifier of modern India<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Statue of Unity has been inaugurated in Surat in commemoration to the \u201cIron Man of India\u201d Sardar Vallabhai Patel on his 143rd birth anniversary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Sardar Patel served as the first home minister of independent India.<\/li>\n<li>He is credited with integrating the more than 500 disparate princely States into the Dominion of India which is considered an unparalleled accomplishment in modern history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>About the Statue: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Built on the Sadhu Bet island, on the Narmada river, the Statue of Unity is located between the Satpura and the Vindhya mountain ranges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35571\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/india-2.jpg?resize=252%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/india-2.jpg?w=252&amp;ssl=1 252w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/india-2.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/india-2.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35570\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sardar.jpg?resize=484%2C284&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sardar.jpg?w=484&amp;ssl=1 484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sardar.jpg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sardar.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unifier of modern India News: The Statue of Unity has been inaugurated in Surat in commemoration to the \u201cIron Man of India\u201d Sardar Vallabhai Patel on his 143rd birth anniversary. Important Facts: Sardar Patel served as the first home minister of independent India. He is credited with integrating the more than 500 disparate princely&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-unifier-of-modern-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The unifier of modern India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[673,262,674,676,675],"class_list":["post-35575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-art-and-culture","tag-gs-1","tag-sardar-vallabhai-patel","tag-statue-of-unity","tag-tallest-statue","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704953029},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}