{"id":727,"date":"2017-06-20T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/?page_id=727"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:42:21","slug":"caste","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/the-life-of-hinduism\/caste\/","title":{"rendered":"Caste"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caste<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fig. L &#8211; J.S. Hawley, &#8220;Ravidas&#8221;; poems translated with Mark Juergensmeyer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-L.jpg 500w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-L-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-L-200x148.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ravidas beams his blessing upon the temple constructed to honor his birthplace&lt;br \/&gt;at Sri Govardhanpur, Benares. Poster illustration, 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fig. M &#8211; J.S. Hawley, &#8220;Ravidas&#8221;; poems translated with Mark Juergensmeyer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"306\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-M.jpg 306w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-M-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-M-200x327.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-M-300x490.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ravidas displaying his inner sacred thread. Poster illustration, Sri Govardhanpur, Benares, 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"parent":695,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727\/revisions\/833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}