{"id":39611,"date":"2018-12-29T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=39611"},"modified":"2018-12-29T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:32:37","slug":"modi-to-release-stamp-on-suheldev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/modi-to-release-stamp-on-suheldev\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi to release stamp on Suheldev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/modi-to-release-stamp-on-suheldev\/article25854145.ece\">Modi to release stamp on Suheldev<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>India to release postal stamp in the name of a backward Caste-Dalit chieftain Suhaldev.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Postal stamp to be issued by Indian Prime Minister contain the caste name of Suheldev and the sub-categorisation of the OBC quota.<\/li>\n<li><strong>About Suhaldev <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Suhaldev is a semi-legendary Indian king from Shravasti, who is said to have defeated and killed the Ghaznavid general Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud at Bahraich, in the early 11th century.<\/li>\n<li>Though there is no unanimity among historians and scholars about the true caste origins of Suheldev, he is generally identified as belonging to the Bhar community, a backward caste. However, both the Rajbhar and the Pasi communities stake claim to his legacy.<\/li>\n<li>He is mentioned in Mirat-i-Masudi, a 17th-century Persian-language historical romance.<\/li>\n<li>In later Hindutva-influenced versions, Suhaldev is characterized as a cow protector, patron of saints and benefactor of Hindus<\/li>\n<li>Various caste groups have attempted to appropriate Suhaldev as one of their own. According to Mirat-e-Masudi, Suhaldev belonged to the &#8220;Bhar Tharu&#8221; community<\/li>\n<li>During the 1950s and 1960s, the local politicians started characterizing Suhaldev as a Pasi king to influence the Pasis, a Dalit community and an important votebank around Bahraich<\/li>\n<li>Maharaja Suhaldev Sewa Samiti, an organization formed by Hindu nationalist activists in Bahraich in 2001, has been organizing various programmes to commemorate Suhaldev as a defender of the Hindu faith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi to release stamp on Suheldev News: India to release postal stamp in the name of a backward Caste-Dalit chieftain Suhaldev. Important Facts: Postal stamp to be issued by Indian Prime Minister contain the caste name of Suheldev and the sub-categorisation of the OBC quota. About Suhaldev Suhaldev is a semi-legendary Indian king from Shravasti,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/modi-to-release-stamp-on-suheldev\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Modi to release stamp on Suheldev<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704860190},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}