The Zero Mile Stone stands near the old courthouse in central Nagpur, erected by the British in 1907 to mark their calculated centre of the Indian subcontinent. Four cast-iron horses face north, south, east, and west, and the stone pillar itself is inscribed with the distances from Nagpur to the four corners of British India. The survey math has since been revised — Nagpur is not quite the geometric centre of modern India — but the monument has become a point of civic pride, and the city still calls itself "The City at the Heart of India."
The setting is not glamorous — a busy traffic roundabout with colonial-era buildings nearby — but the stone itself has considerable presence and the surrounding Sitabuldi area rewards a short walk. The monument was restored in recent years and is floodlit at night.