{"id":2650,"date":"2025-09-11T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:32:46","slug":"how-did-you-find-out-that-mount-everest-is-the-highest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/how-did-you-find-out-that-mount-everest-is-the-highest\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0915\u0948\u0938\u0947, \u092a\u0924\u093e \u091a\u0932\u093e Mount Everest \u0938\u092c\u0938\u0947 \u090a\u0902\u091a\u093e \u0939\u0948?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The Great Trigonometrical Survey was not just a scientific project \u2014 it was one of the smartest colonial strategies used by the British to control India. Starting in the early 19th century, this massive mapping exercise laid the foundation for what later became the Survey of India. Led by surveyors like George Everest \u2014 after whom Mount Everest is named \u2014 the project helped the British understand India\u2019s geography, resources, and people in unprecedented detail. This knowledge became a powerful tool of domination, enabling them to tighten their grip over the subcontinent for decades. In this video by <\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Thirdpolelive\" target=\"\">\u202a@Thirdpolelive\u202c<\/a><\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> we uncover the hidden motives, the scale of the operation, and its long-lasting impact on India\u2019s history. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Trigonometrical Survey was not just a scientific project \u2014 it was one of the smartest colonial strategies used by the British to control India. Starting in the early 19th century, this massive mapping exercise laid the foundation for what later became the Survey of India. Led by surveyors like George Everest \u2014 after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phenomenon","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdpole.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}