Police brace for more trouble after Hindu hardliners shut shops and businesses and clashed with police in southern Kerala state for two days in protest against entry of first two women in one of Hinduism's holiest temples.
Police say one person, part of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party protests, died and another 15 were injured in violence after two women defied a centuries-old ban by entering Sabarimala temple, provoking right-wing and traditionalists' anger.
Two Indian women made history by entering a Kerala temple where females between 10 and 50 years old were previously forbidden. Here’s what you need to know about the incident.
Two women entered a Hindu temple in Kerala early on Wednesday, a day after thousands of women formed a human chain across the southern state. India's Supreme Court last year voided the ban on women aged 10-50 from entering the temple.
Indian police officers cleared protesters from the vicinity of the Sabarimala temple in Kerala state, hours before the temple's doors were to open to females ages 10 to 50.
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