{"id":39831,"date":"2017-02-21T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=39831"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:30:30","slug":"expo-showcase-gangas-rich-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=39831","title":{"rendered":"Expo to showcase ganga\u2019s rich heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"AticleImg\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"storyContent\" data-height=\"788\">\n<div class=\"page\">\nNEW DELHI:\u00a0\u00a0The river Ganga has been the lifeline to millions of Indians for ages and to highlight its old heritage, the Centre is planning an exhibition on the river at the National Museum in March. It will showcase artefacts, manuscripts, jewellery, paintings and other exhibits to apprise people about the importance of the holy river.<br \/>\nThe idea has been mooted by government officials keeping in mind Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s priority of rejuvenating the highly-polluted river.<br \/>\nThe National Museum is collecting exhibits that depict the river as \u2018Goddess Ganga\u2019. Other artefacts related to former provincial or imperial capitals such as Patliputra, Kannauj, Allahabad, Murshidabad and Calcutta, located on its banks, are also being collected.<br \/>\nThe National Museum has some classical collections related to the Ganga, the most famous being a 5th century terracotta statue of the goddess from the Gupta Period, which was found near Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.<br \/>\n\u201cEfforts are on to collect all artefacts and ancient texts related to the Ganga. Visitors will see how the river became an integral part of our ancestors,\u201d a senior government official said.<br \/>\nGenerations have always prayed to the Ganga, but most people are not aware of the role it played in nourishing civilisations.<br \/>\nNearly 40 per cent of the country\u2019s people are dependent on the river for their livelihood. From its origin in Uttarakhand, the river runs 2,500 km through Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal, before falling into the Bay of Bengal.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:\u00a0\u00a0The river Ganga has been the lifeline to millions of Indians for ages and to highlight its old heritage, the Centre is planning an exhibition on the river at the National Museum in March. It will showcase artefacts, manuscripts, jewellery, paintings and other exhibits to apprise people about the importance of the holy river. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1934],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}