{"id":80,"date":"2006-09-15T08:35:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T12:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2006-09-15T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T12:35:55","slug":"indians-offered-a-cash-bonus-to-marry-beneath-their-caste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Indians offered a cash bonus to marry beneath their caste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Jeremy Page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Government hopes that its offer of \u00a3580 will help to break an unjust hierarchy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THE Indian Government is offering 50,000 rupees (\u00a3580) to higher-caste people who marry spouses from the lowest castes in its latest controversial effort to dismantle the ancient Hindu social hierarchy. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment made the proposal yesterday amid a growing controversy over plans to expand quotas for lower-caste students at schools and universities. <\/p>\n<p>The scheme is already under attack, with conservatives saying it will trigger social chaos and liberals arguing that few will accept the offer \u2014 and fewer will receive the funds. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed bonus is a small fortune in a country where average annual income per capita is \u00a3280, and where official corruption is rampant.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-2359027_1,00.html\" title=\"Indians offered a cash bonus to marry beneath their caste\">Full Article : timesonline.co.uk<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeremy Page The Government hopes that its offer of \u00a3580 will help to break an unjust hierarchy THE Indian Government is offering 50,000 rupees (\u00a3580) to higher-caste people who marry spouses from the lowest castes in its latest controversial effort to dismantle the ancient Hindu social hierarchy. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=80\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indians offered a cash bonus to marry beneath their caste<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}