Nagpur: the city at India's geographic center

Near the geographic center point of India, Nagpur is known as India's citrus capital thanks to its orange orchards.

The center, located at India's geographic center, is comfortably explored by motor rickshaw.

The Zero Mile Stone, a monument erected by the British, marks the point historically used as the geographic center reference point of all India.

Steps away, the Deekshabhoomi, a domed Buddhist monument, commemorates the mass conversion to Buddhism led by reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar in 1956.

Heading inland, you visit the plantations of Nagpur oranges, the variety that made the city famous throughout India as the country's principal citrus producer.

Toward evening, local markets sell the celebrated oranges alongside hot spices typical of Vidarbha cuisine.

Deekshabhoomi commemorates the event when Bhimrao Ambedkar, principal architect of India's constitution, led over three hundred thousand people in conversion to Buddhism in 1956, protesting the persistence of the caste system.

Nagpur, owing to its position nearly equidistant from the subcontinent's four corners, was chosen by the British as the cartographic centre point for all of British India, a symbolic role remembered today.