{"id":5342,"date":"2005-06-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/06\/24\/2005-06-24-kumbh-mela-for-tribals\/"},"modified":"2005-06-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T12:00:00","slug":"2005-06-24-kumbh-mela-for-tribals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/06\/24\/2005-06-24-kumbh-mela-for-tribals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbh Mela For Tribals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/cities.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=135030\">cities.expressindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 18, 2005: A special three-day mela (festival),  called Sabri Kumbh to be held next year is expected to attract about  five hundred thousand tribals. This is organized by the Rashtriya  Sawamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). The idea  is to bring them to the mainstream Hindu culture by giving them  social prominence. This three-day mela to be organized at Subir  village in the Dangs district will be held during February 11, 12 and  13, 2006. &#8221;The idea is to give these people a taste of Gauravpurna  Jivan (&#8220;life full of respect&#8221;) allowed in Hindu culture. There should be an understanding that  they are not treated as outsiders or untouchables. They are all  Hindus. In fact, this is a culmination of the positive interest in  these people by Hindus all over,&#8221; said Pravin Maniyar, the western  region media head of RSS. When asked why the Dangs was chosen for the  mela, he said: &#8221;In Dangs, the Christian missionaries have faced a  setback from the local populace after Vanwasi Kalyan Ashram started  reconversion work there. Also of significance is the Sabrimata temple  that symbolizes Ram being fed by a tribal with Lakshman alongside.  The Kumbh will be in the lake near the temple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cities.expressindia.com AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 18, 2005: A special three-day mela (festival), called Sabri Kumbh to be held next year is,&#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-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","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=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}