India’s Supreme Court Lifts Sabarimala Temple Ban on Women of Menstruating Age

• Radhakrishna N S
• 28 September, 2018

By: Radhakrishna N S

India’s top court, supreme court on Friday (28) lifted a ban that prevented women and girls between the age of 10 and 50 from entering a prominent Hindu temple, Sabarimala in the country’s southern state of Kerala. The authorities at the Sabarimala temple, which attracts tens of millions of pilgrims every year, have said the ban was rooted in a centuries-old tradition and is essential to the rites related to the temple’s chief deity, Ayyappan. In some Hindu communities, menstruating women are regarded as unclean, leading to restrictions and in a few cases outright bans on women of child-bearing age…

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