{"id":10467,"date":"2011-09-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/18\/monsoon-in-sindh-pours-cold-water-on-dalit-hindus-allahyar-pilgrimage\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T12:00:00","slug":"monsoon-in-sindh-pours-cold-water-on-dalit-hindus-allahyar-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/18\/monsoon-in-sindh-pours-cold-water-on-dalit-hindus-allahyar-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon In Sindh Pours Cold Water on Dalit Hindus&#8217; Allahyar Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2011\/09\/monsoon-in-sindh-pours-cold-water-on-dalit-hindus'-pilgrimage-to-tando-allahyar\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARACHI, PAKISTAN, September 5, 2011 (Pakistan Today): The recent catastrophic monsoon has postponed Hindu saint Rama Pir&#8217;s annual mela &#8211; the biggest gathering of Dalit Hindus in Pakistan &#8211; besides destroying standing crops, houses, bridges, schools and healthcare facilities; killing people, livestock and wildlife; and damaging heritage sites and government buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Months ago, a large number of lower caste Hindus &#8212; officially declared as scheduled caste Hindus by the Pakistani government &#8212; started walking several miles to participate in the three-day annual gathering or mela, which was supposed to start on Tuesday. However, Rama Pir Sheva Mandli in-charge Kaka Ishwar Das Utoomal announced on Monday that due to the recent torrential rains, the mela has been postponed and rescheduled for October 6.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the devastation caused by the monsoon, a large number of Dalit Hindus have reached the town of Tando Allahyar, where the 400-year-old historical Rama Pir temple is located, and thousands are still on their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, September 5, 2011 (Pakistan Today): The recent catastrophic monsoon has postponed Hindu saint Rama Pir&#8217;s annual mela,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}