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Britain warns on travel to southern India after temple unrest

  • Hindu groups believe that women of menstruating age should not enter the temple because they are “impure” and the temple deity, Ayyappa, was celibate
By AFP ·
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Protests paralyze Indian state after women defy temple ban

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