![]() While her body became the map and the map her body, Bharat Mata also garnered around herself other national secular insignia like the tricolour and the Asokan pillar capital. As her image proliferated over the coming decades in popular print pictures, the motherland as deity frequently grafted on the physical contours of the map, giving a new sanctity to the territorial and administrative entity. ![]() In a land brimming with gods and goddesses, this new goddess staged her arrival at the turn of the 20th century, claiming a unique space of her own. ![]() There is instead a rich political paradox in the manner in which the secular abstracted ideal of the nation sought out an anthropomorphic motif for veneration and mapped its body on to the cartography of the country. ![]()
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