{"id":8953,"date":"2010-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/08\/dalit-hindus-are-priests-in-uttar-pradesh-temple\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:00:00","slug":"dalit-hindus-are-priests-in-uttar-pradesh-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/08\/dalit-hindus-are-priests-in-uttar-pradesh-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalit Hindus Are Priests in Uttar Pradesh Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/a-temple-where-upper-castes-bow-to-dalits-news-national-kdzjubjhhdd.html\">sify.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LUCKNOW, INDIA, March 25, 2010: Stories of socially marginalized people not being allowed into places of worship are common in India. In such a scenario, a Dalit family presiding over an Uttar Pradesh temple for two centuries is nothing short of exemplary. It&#8217;s only Dalits who have been priests of the Kali Mata temple, dedicated to Goddess Durga, some 300 km from Lucknow, ever since the shrine came up around 200 years ago. &#8220;Caste divisions and discrimination may not have given Dalits a place of respectability in society, but here as priests they are revered,&#8221; says Ram Dular Rajbhar, who owns a grocery store in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: sify.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, March 25, 2010: Stories of socially marginalized people not being allowed into places of worship are,&#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-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","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=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}