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Report of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Committee United Provinces

1931

The President and some of the members of the Committee had from time to time during the course of the enquiry opportunity to discuss some of the matters forming the subject of the enquiry with the late Hon'ble Mr. [...] By the interposition of a trustee the debtor bought to withdraw his property out of the reach of his creditor the ifee-holder to intercept the fruits of tenure from the lord of whom the lands were held and the body ecclesiastic to evade the restrictions directed against the growing wealth of the church by the Statutes of iMortmain (') in passing which declared Lord Hardwicke LegiLiture had [...] Thus we read in the inscriptions of officers "that attend on the sacred feet of God" "in charge of sacred inside of the temple" in charge of organized charities" and "in charge of the sacred precincts of the temple" besides a variety of menial servants all placed under a managing committee or Sabha on which were reprsented the particular sect claiming the temple the temple treasury the [...] There can be little doubt that this superitending authority was exercised by the old rulers." These decisions did not enter into the question of the nature and the extent of the authority of the State in respect of endowments nor should they be taken to lay down that the authority of the State was untrammelled by the rules and regulations of the ecclesiastical body concerned. [...] For a long thee the servants of the East India Company supervised the Amiistrat Eon of the arions rmigions end charitable trusts of the Indian. Legislation in the dawn of the British nile.—Further the British Government brought on the Statute Book a definite legislation containing specific and detailed provisions for the due appropriation of grants made for the support or inesinies Hindu tem
philosophy religion
Pages
313
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140453
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
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Frontmatter
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I. Introduction
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I. Histotical Retrospect
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III. Growing Dissatisfaction with Act XX of 1863 and Attempts at Legislation
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IV. Inadequacy of Control and Consequent Necessity for Fresh Legislation in the United Provinces
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V. Remedial Measures
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VI. Subsidiary Proposals
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VII. Dharmada Fund
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VIII. Financial Provision
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IX. Recapitulation and Transitory Provisions
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Summary of Recommendations
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Appendix
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Orders of Government
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