{"id":7332,"date":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/28\/dalits-defy-caste-ban-enter-temple\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","slug":"dalits-defy-caste-ban-enter-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/28\/dalits-defy-caste-ban-enter-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalits Defy Caste Ban, Enter Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/India\/After_a_decade_Dalits_defy_Hindu_ban_enter_temple\/articleshow\/3891513.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MADURAI, INDIA, December 25, 2008: After a decade-long struggle, Dalits have legally cast down a ban imposed on them and entered the Kannanallur Mariamman temple in Panthapuli village, Terunelveli district.<\/p>\n<p>District collector G.Prakash and Superintendent of Police Asra Garg led the Dalits into the temple, meeting no resistance, although some caste Hindus resented the entry.<\/p>\n<p>The temple, which was closed for nearly 10 years due to a conflict between Dalits and upper castes, has been opened and poojas will be performed on a regular basis by all, officials said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com MADURAI, INDIA, December 25, 2008: After a decade-long struggle, Dalits have legally cast down a ban imposed on them,&#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-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","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=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}