{"id":17104,"date":"2021-01-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/01\/04\/meet-india-s-lower-caste-hindu-priest\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:00:00","slug":"meet-india-s-lower-caste-hindu-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/01\/04\/meet-india-s-lower-caste-hindu-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet India&#8217;s Lower-Caste Hindu Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-asia-india-55307935\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, January 3, 2021 (BBC): For centuries in India, only people from the highest caste were allowed to become Hindu priests. Marichamy was the first from a caste lower than the brahmin caste to be ordained as part of a state-sponsored program. He hoped to pave the way for others. But a lawsuit and fears of intimidation have stopped authorities from appointing other non-Brahmins as priests. You can view the short video at &#8220;source&#8221; above to hear more on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, January 3, 2021 (BBC): For centuries in India, only people from the highest caste were allowed to become,&#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-17104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104","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=17104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}