{"id":15362,"date":"2017-01-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/01\/30\/maoists-blamed-for-destruction-of-1100-year-old-ganesha-statue-on-bastar-hilltop\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:00:00","slug":"maoists-blamed-for-destruction-of-1100-year-old-ganesha-statue-on-bastar-hilltop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/01\/30\/maoists-blamed-for-destruction-of-1100-year-old-ganesha-statue-on-bastar-hilltop\/","title":{"rendered":"Maoists Blamed for Destruction of 1100-Year-Old Ganesha Statue on Bastar Hilltop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/raipur\/1100-year-old-ganesha-idol-falls-from-bastar-hilltop-cops-suspect-maoists-role\/articleshow\/56819245.cms?\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RAIPUR, INDIA, January 28, 2017 (Times of India): A 1,100-year-old Ganesha statue located atop Dholkal hill in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, fell from a height of 13,000 feet and broke into pieces in the dense forest area dominated by the Maoists. Experts and conservationists term this a major blow to archaeology.<\/p>\n<p>Bastar police believe Maoists pushed the statue off the hill to destroy it in an attempt to stop development works and prevent visitors in the area where they have a strong presence as the incident took place after the recent government announcement to sanction US$294,000 for developing the area as a tourist spot.<\/p>\n<p>With information about the missing statue spreading like wildfire, pictures of the spot went viral on the social media amid speculation that the 10th century statue was stolen. Later, a group of people launched a search and finally found pieces of the historic statue scattered at the foothill. The 1,100 year old Ganesha statue was discovered 5 years ago by a local journalist, who reached the Dholkal hilltop in 2012. Located atop of Dhol-shaped hill called Dholkal, the six-foot statue belonged to Nagvanshi dynasty of 9th or 10th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source RAIPUR, INDIA, January 28, 2017 (Times of India): A 1,100-year-old Ganesha statue located atop Dholkal hill in Dantewada district,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}