{"id":499,"date":"2001-02-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/11\/2001-02-11-quake-can-t-shake-caste-system-claim-catholics\/"},"modified":"2001-02-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-11T12:00:00","slug":"2001-02-11-quake-can-t-shake-caste-system-claim-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/11\/2001-02-11-quake-can-t-shake-caste-system-claim-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"Quake Can&#8217;t Shake Caste System, Claim Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.expressindia.com\/news\/daily\/20010208\/00803701.htm#TOP\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LAKHOND, INDIA, February 8, 2001: Even though streets are strewn with rubble and houses are useless heaps of stone, one structure that can&#8217;t be shaken in India, even by a killer earthquake is the caste system, according to this report in the Indian Express. The town has six distinct tent camps for the earthquake homeless &#8211; four different Hindu castes, the untouchables and Muslims. All the camps are separate. Relief groups find themselves wrestling with the country&#8217;s ingrained social hierarchy to get help to everybody. &#8220;The whole issue of making sure all the castes are included has been a challenge,&#8221; Graham Saunders of Catholic Relief Services said. &#8220;Whatever the distribution of aid, it first goes to the upper castes,&#8221; claimed Mayuri Mistry, a Catholic Relief Services worker in Gujarat. Other reports, however, indicate that villages are working in excellent cooperation across both caste and religious lines.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LAKHOND, INDIA, February 8, 2001: Even though streets are strewn with rubble and houses are useless heaps,&#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-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}