Kanwar Yatra is an annual Hindu pilgrimage observed in parts of North India. Each year, during the month of Savan (July\u2013August), devotees walk barefoot to collect Ganga water from sacred sites and carry it back to Shiva temples in various localities to perform Abhishek, the ritual bathing of the shivalingams kept in temples. From a solemn and peaceful annual pilgrimage undertaken by thousands, it has now evolved into an event involving millions thanks to the involvement in recent years of Hindutva elements who use it for consolidation of their votebank and show their concern for Hindus causes. As a result, once a quiet, introspective act of faith, driven by piety and penance, has increasingly become a raucous, socio-political event marked by violence, political patronage, and communal polarization, and exclusion of non-Hindus from use of roads and closure of Muslim-owned shops and eateries on the pilgrimage routes. This report studies the issues related to the yatra in 2025.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Kanwar Yatra is an annual Hindu pilgrimage observed in parts of North India. Each year, during the month of Savan (July\u2013August), devotees walk barefoot to collect Ganga water from sacred sites and carry it back to Shiva temples in various localities to perform Abhishek, the ritual bathing of the shivalingams kept in temples.
\nFrom a solemn and peaceful annual pilgrimage undertaken by thousands, it has now evolved into an event involving millions thanks to the involvement in recent years of Hindutva elements who use it for consolidation of their votebank and show their concern for Hindus causes. As a result, once a quiet, introspective act of faith, driven by piety and penance, has increasingly become a raucous, socio-political event marked by violence, political patronage, and communal polarization, and exclusion of non-Hindus from use of roads and closure of Muslim-owned shops and eateries on the pilgrimage routes. This report studies the issues related to the yatra in 2025.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[20,40,47,182,9,174],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}