{"id":8497,"date":"2023-04-13T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:52:55","slug":"bishnoi-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bishnoi-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishnoi community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the Bishnoi community:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bishnois belong to a Hindu religious sect found in the <strong>Western Thar Desert<\/strong> and some northern states of India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They trace their origins to the teachings of <strong>Guru Jambhesvara<\/strong> who was born to a Panwar Rajput family in 1451 AD at Peepasar village of Nagore district in Western Rajasthan.<\/li>\n<li>They strictly forbid the harming of <strong>trees and animals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They believe in protecting the environment and can die doing it so.<\/li>\n<li>The person of this community are inspired and gets inspiration <strong>from Amrita Devi<\/strong>, a Bishnoi woman who was killed in 1730 while trying to protect a grove of <strong>khejri trees.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Khejri tree<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is considered a sacred tree in <strong>Rajasthan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>also called jant or janti<\/strong> in areas like Alwar, Sikar, Jhunjhunu,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>a nitrogen-fixing tree<\/strong> which enhances the fertility of the soil.<\/li>\n<li>The fruit is used to make the very popular <strong>local dish \u2018Sangri\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The bark of this tress is used <strong>medicinall<\/strong>y for a range of ailments.<\/li>\n<li>It plays a vital role in preserving the ecosystem of arid and semi-arid areas, mainly in the Thar Desert.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The leaves have high nutritive value and are locally called \u2018loong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Nitrogen fixation?<\/h3>\n<p>Nitrogen fixation is the process by which atmospheric nitrogen gas (N2) is converted into a form that can be used by living organisms, such as plants, as a nutrient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/jaipur-news\/protests-erupt-as-solar-companies-destroy-thousands-of-trees-in-rajasthan-including-state-tree-khejri-for-renewable-energy-projects-101681309991923.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bishnois raise concern over felling of Khejri trees<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishnoi community belong to a Hindu religious sect found mainly in the Western Thar Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}