{"id":47545,"date":"2025-05-15T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47545"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:58:12","slug":"madku-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/madku-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Madku Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Madku Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Chhattisgarh High Court is actively monitoring the development initiatives at Madku Dweep, a place of significant local importance.<\/p>\n<h2>About Madku Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is situated on the\u00a0<strong>banks of the Shivnath River<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>longest tributary of the Mahanadi\u00a0<\/strong>River), in the Bilaspur district of\u00a0<strong>Chhattisgarh<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The name Madku stems from the fact that the island is in the shape of a frog.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has an area of around 24 hectares.<\/li>\n<li>Madku Island is popularly\u00a0<strong>known as Kedar Tirth\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Harihar Kshetra Kedar Dweep.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Archaeologists have discovered\u00a0<strong>prehistoric stone tools, epigraphs, and coins<\/strong>\u00a0on this island.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>Stone inscriptions have also been found, which are believed to date back to the\u00a0<strong>3rd century BC.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>One stone inscription was in\u00a0<strong>Brahmi script\u00a0<\/strong>and another in\u00a0<strong>Shankha script.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Madku Dweep is also home to\u00a0<strong>several ancient and unique idols of Lord Shiva, Ganesha,Shiv-Parvati, Nandi,<\/strong>\u00a0and various other Gods.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Archaeologists have successfully\u00a0<strong>excavated 19 temples\u00a0<\/strong>on Madku Dweep.\n<ul>\n<li>Eighteen of these temples face east, whereas the middle temple is the only one that faces west.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The<strong>\u00a0architectural style\u00a0<\/strong>of these temples, along with the sculptures and idols, is believed to be\u00a0<strong>similar to that of the Great Kalchuris.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Madku Island is also the place where an\u00a0<strong>annual and important Christian fair\u00a0<\/strong>has been\u00a0<strong>hosted since 1909.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The fair is organized<strong>\u00a0in February,<\/strong>\u00a0it is attended by Christians all across the Chhattisgarh state and beyond, and is locally known as\u00a0<strong>Masihi Mela.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Madku Island FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Madku Island is located on the banks of which river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Shivnath River (longest tributary of the Mahanadi River)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Madku Island is located in which Indian state?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Chhattisgarh\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>. The architectural style of the temples on Madku Island is similar to which dynasty?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kalchuris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madku Island is situated on the banks of the Shivnath River (longest tributary of the Mahanadi River), in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[445,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-madku-island","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}