HRCE Periyar Thidal 12 02 2023.pdf

This presentation explains the need for the temples to remain under Government control. Those who oppose it are those who want to resurrect the inhuman Chaturvarna system. History is replete with evidence that the chaturvarna supporters had , when the government control was absent or lax, used the temples for loot, rape and assassination of kings and leaders. If the Indian society should march towards a civilised era, temples should continue to remain under Government control, and that control should be more sincere and thorough.

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3. Multi pronged strategy: an overview
•Monopolising top-level bureaucracy and preventing the suppressed classes from occupying their share of posts.
•Keeping the top-level posts accountability-free.
•Monopolising spy network.
•Monopolising media & muffling anti-chaturvarnavoices.
•Tampering with real history in the text-books.
•Infiltrating into the higher education institutions and saffronisingthem.
•Manipulating the foreign media and embassies.
•Abusing the powers of the departments for sectarian purposes
•Adopting opaque methods of recruitment to higher judiciary and not bringing in even the Judicial Standards and Accountability Act.
•Diluting and ignoring the provisions of the RTI Act.
•Pooh-poohing human rights and declaring that the Indians need not have the western concept of human rights.
•Avoiding conscription
•Escaping government supervision over temple affairs, in order to acquire unlimited power over civil society.

4. The immediate need
•The emergency need is:
•The Legal section of the Tamil Nadu HR&CE Department should be monitored by a team consisting of people who not support the uncivilized Chaturvarnasystem.
•All the cases filed in various courts against the Government should be examined by this team and the counter affidavits vetted by it.
•Otherwise, all the cases filed by the chaturvarnafanatics against the Government of Tamil Nadu will result in the Government continuing to lose the case, as has happened in many cases, right from 2015.

5. If we do not act, the possibilities will be

6. Lands Vs. Temple administrators
Renewed vigourand venom
•Vedaranyam
•Ottanchaththiram
•Kerala Ettarayogam
•Cultivating tenantsprotection
•Demography and Democracy and Tamils

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8. REPORT
UNITEDPROVINCES
ZAMINDARIABOLITION
COMMITTEE
VOLUME I
vIJab/O•jM<j
ALLAHABAD:
PrintedmM.G.Skome,Superintendent, PrintingandStationery,U.P-

9. Chapter
Vlll
Page
XI--AGRARIANREFORMSINSOMECOUNTRIESOF
EUROPE ...262
General.... ...263
EasternandSouth-EasternEurope ...268
Rumania ...272
Poland ...278
Hungary ...286
Yugoslavia ... ...293
Bulgaria ...300
Czechoslovakia ...306
XII--COLLECTIVEFARMS ...311
AgrarianreformsintheU.S.S.R. ...311
Co-operationinPalestine ...328
CollectiveFarminginMexico ...332
XIII--CASEFORZAMINDARIABOLITION ...336
PartII
RECOMMENDATIONS
XIV—THEINTERMEDIARIES ANDTHEIRELIMINA-
TION ... ...361
Whoarecultivators? ... ...368
Whoareintermediaries? ...369
Classesoflandownedbyzamindars ... ... 370
Inferiorproprietors ... ...376
Tenantswithoccupancyrights ... ...378
Tenantswithtemporaryrights ...379
Redistribution ofLand ...385

10. 258
Inthesameyear,1908,inamvillagesonwhichtheland
revenuealonehadbeengrantedininamwereplacedonthe
samelootingaszamindaris. Theyweretreatedasestatesand
broughtwithinthescopeoftheEstatesLandAct.In1936,all
inamvillageswerebroughtwithinthescopeofthatActand
thezamindarisystemwasextendedtothem.
PrakasamCommittee’sReport1938
The1908Actgovernedtherelations between theland-
holdersandtheryots,andwastheonlymeasure forthe
protectionofryotsagainstrack-rentingandillegalduesand
improperenhancement ofrenttill1937.WhentheCongress
MinistrycameintopowerinMadrasitappointed theMadras
EstatesLandActCommittee toenquireintoandreportonthe
conditionsprevailinginzamindariandotherproprietary areas
intheprovinceandsuggestanylegislationthatmightbedesirable.
TheCommittee,popularlyknownasthePrakasamCommittee,
submitted itsreportinNovember,1938. Itsmainrecommenda-
tionswere:
(1)Thepresentstateofaffairswhichhasbeenbrought
aboutbytheerrorsofadministration, shouldberadically
alteredandthepositionwhichtheframersofthePermanent
Settlementintendedfortheryotsshouldberestoredto
them.Forthatpurposeallrentsinzamindarisshouldbe
fixedatthefiguresinforceintheyearprecedingtheper-
manentsettlement, i.e.in1801.
(2)Wheretherentof1801wasinkind, itshouldbe
commutedatthegrainpriceswhichprevailedinthatyear.
(3)Rentonlandswhichwerewastein1801shouldbe
fixedattheratesapplicable toadjacentlandsofsimilar
qualitywhichhadbeenoccupiedin1801.
(4)
Alloccupationoflandwhichhadatanytimebeen
communalland,shouldbemadeillegal.
(5)
Allforestsshouldbedeclaredthepropertyofthe
villagecommunity.
(6)Allrightstothecontrolofirrigationinestatesshould
beappropriatedbytheGovernment.
(71Everyryotshouldbegiventherighttoworkthe
mineralsinhisland.

11. (8)Recoveryofarrearsofzamindarirentsshouldbe
effectedbyGovernmentundertheRevenueRecoveryAct
andafixedpercentagechargedforsuchrecovery.
InJanuary,1939,theprovinciallegislature passed resolu-
tionsurgingtheGovernment tobringinlegislation toimple-
menttherecommendations oftheCommittee.AdraftBill,
calledtheMadrasEstateLandRevenueBill,1939,wasaccord-
inglyprepared. ButsoonaftertheCongressMinistryresigned
fromoffice.
TheAdvisoryregimewhichsucceededtheMinistry consi-
deredtherecommendations oftheEstateLandActCommittee
tobeunfairandimpractical, as‘turningtheclockback’and
decidedtoputitincoldstorageandtooktodevising other
meansofsolvingthezamindariproblem.
SteptakenbytheMinistryin
1946
ThepopularMinistrywhichwasformedin1946againtook
uptnequestionoflegislationinregardtothezamindariestates
andinNovember,1946,decided:
(1)
thatthegeneralprincipleoftheabolition ofthe
zamindarisystemshouldbeadopted,and
(2)
thataCabinetSub-committee shouldexaminethe
MadrasEstateLandRevenue Bill,1939,andmakerecom-
mendations.
InpursuanceofthisdecisionoftheGovernment,thefollow-
ingresolutionwasadoptedbytheMadrasLegislativeCouncil
on31stJanuary,1947:
“ThisCouncilacceptstheprincipleoftheabolition
ofthezamindarisysteminthisprovinceandrecommends
toGovernment thatlegislationforit,providingforpay-
mentofequitablecompensation tozamindarsandother
intermediarieswhoserightsaretobeacquired,bebrought
forwardatanearlydate.”
TheMadrasEstatesBillof1947
ObjectsandReasons
Atthesametimeadraftschemefortheacquisitionofthe
estatesandtheirconversion intoRyotwariwasworkedoutin
(8)Recoveryofarrearsofzamindarirentsshouldbe
effectedbyGovernmentundertheRevenueRecoveryAct
andafixedpercentagechargedforsuchrecovery.
InJanuary,1939,theprovinciallegislature passed resolu-
tionsurgingtheGovernment tobringinlegislation toimple-
menttherecommendations oftheCommittee.AdraftBill,
calledtheMadrasEstateLandRevenueBill,1939,wasaccord-
inglyprepared. ButsoonaftertheCongressMinistryresigned
fromoffice.
TheAdvisoryregimewhichsucceededtheMinistry consi-
deredtherecommendations oftheEstateLandActCommittee
tobeunfairandimpractical, as‘turningtheclockback’and
decidedtoputitincoldstorageandtooktodevising other
meansofsolvingthezamindariproblem.
SteptakenbytheMinistryin
1946
ThepopularMinistrywhichwasformedin1946againtook
uptnequestionoflegislationinregardtothezamindariestates
andinNovember,1946,decided:
(1)
thatthegeneralprincipleoftheabolition ofthe
zamindarisystemshouldbeadopted,and
(2)
thataCabinetSub-committee shouldexaminethe
MadrasEstateLandRevenue Bill,1939,andmakerecom-
mendations.
InpursuanceofthisdecisionoftheGovernment,thefollow-
ingresolutionwasadoptedbytheMadrasLegislativeCouncil
on31stJanuary,1947:
“ThisCouncilacceptstheprincipleoftheabolition
ofthezamindarisysteminthisprovinceandrecommends
toGovernment thatlegislationforit,providingforpay-
mentofequitablecompensation tozamindarsandother
intermediarieswhoserightsaretobeacquired,bebrought
forwardatanearlydate.”
TheMadrasEstatesBillof1947
ObjectsandReasons
Atthesametimeadraftschemefortheacquisitionofthe
estatesandtheirconversion intoRyotwariwasworkedoutin

14. Hijacking the
concept of temples
•Arulmihu Nageswaran temple,
Kumbakonam

18. 1

THE PREVENTION OF DAMAGE TO PUBLIC PROPERTY ACT, 1984
ACT NO. 3 OF 1984
[16th March, 1984.]
An Act to provide for prevention of damage to public property and for matters connected
therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Prevention of
Damage to Public Property Act, 1984.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 28th day of January, 1984.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “mischief” shall have the same meaning as in section 425 of the Indian Penal
Code (45 of 1860);
(b) “public property” means any property, whether immovable or movable (including any
machinery) which is owned by, or in the possession of, or under the control of—
(i) the Central Government; or
(ii) any State Government; or
(iii) any local authority; or
(iv) any corporation established by, or under, a Central, Provincial or State Act; or
(v) any company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956); or
(vi) any institution, concern or undertaking which the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf:
Provided that the Central Government shall not specify any institution, concern or
undertaking under this sub-clause unless such institution, concern or undertaking is financed
wholly or substantially by funds provided directly or indirectly by the Central Government or
by one or more State Governments, or partly by the Central Government and partly by one or
more State Governments.
3. Mischief causing damage to public property.—(1) Whoever commits mischief by doing any
act in respect of any public property, other than public property of the nature referred to in
sub-section (2), shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and
with fine.
(2) Whoever commits mischief by doing any act in respect of any public property being—
(a) any building, installation or other property used in connection with the production,
distribution or supply of water, light, power or energy;
(b) any oil installations;
(c) any sewage works;
(d) any mine or factory;
(e) any means of public transportation or of tele-communications, or any building, installation
or other property used in connection therewith,
shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months, but
which may extend to five years and with fine:

19. •"425.Mischief-Whoever with intent to cause, or knowing that he is
likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person,
causesthe destruction of any property, or any such change in any
propertyor in the situation thereof as destroys or diminishes its value
or utility, or affects it injuriously, commits "mischief"."

20. •“FromreadingofSection2(a)ofthe
PreventionofDamagetoPublicProperty
Act,1984,itisevidentthatifaperson
changesthenatureofthepublicutilityland
orproperty,itamountstomischief.”
-Allahabad High Court -NanheyLal Gupta And Another vs State Of U.P. -28 July,2022

22. RES JUDICATA

23. Res Judicata
•A special law was passed in 1951 to bring a separate Hindu religious endowment department
instead of Hindu religious endowment board. The powers of the Board were transferred to Hindu
religious endowment department. The subsequent Act of 1959 was meant to administer all the
Hindu public institutions and endowments. There had been numerous judgments upholding the
government oversight over the temporal affairs of the temples, including the ones by the Hon’ble
Supreme Court in Sri Adi Visheshwaraof Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi Vs. State of Uttar
Pradesh, on 14.03.1997 andinT. LakshmikumaraThathachariarVs. The Commissioner, HR&CE on
09.02.1998.

24. Res Judicata
•Madras High CourtSri SabanayagarTemple vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 2 February,2009
•“20. It would thus be clear that the right to establish a religious institution or endowment is a part of religious belief or faith, but its administration is a secular part which would be regulated by law appropriately made by the legislature. The regulation is only in respect of the administration of the secular part of the religious institution or endowment, and not of beliefs, tenets, usages and practices, which are an integral part of that religious belief or faith."

25. From Para 31 of the Adi Vesheswaratemple judgment of the SC,
quoted by the HC in Sabanayagartemple judgment
•“The right to observe and practice rituals and right to manage in matters of religion are protected under these
articles. But right to manage the Temple or endowment is not integral to religion or religious practice or
religion as such which is amenable to statutory control. These secular activities are subject to State regulation
but the religion and religious practices which are an integral part of religion are protected. It is a well-settled
law that administration, management and governance of the religious institution or endowment are secular
activitiesand the State could regulate them by appropriate legislation. This Court upheld the A.P. Act which
regulated the management of the religious institutions and endowments and abolition of hereditary rights and
the right to receive offerings and plate collections attached to the duty."

26. •Hon’ble Supreme Court has held in Sri Adi Vesheswaraof Kashi Vishwanath Temple Vs. State of
Uttar Pradesh (14.03.1997)that
•”One hinges upon constitutional religious model and another diametrically more on traditional point
of view. The legitimacy of the true categories is required to be adjudged strictly within the
parameters of the right of the individual andthe legitimacy of the State for social
progress, well-being and reforms, social intensification and national unity. Law is a tool of
social engineeringand an instrument of social change evolved by a gradual and continuous
process.”

28. •King SadasivadevaMaharaya(1540 -1572 AD) built the Jalagandeswarartemple at Vellore utilising
government funds for part of the fort.
•On 22.06.2013, theDepartment of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments,Government of
Tamil Nadutook over the administration of the JalakandeswararTemple, at theVellore Fort,
following government order dated 18.06.2013, by directing the Assistant Commissioner of Vellore to
take over the temple and assume charge as the 'Fit Person' (Thakkar) of the temple.
•Previously the temple was managed by a private trust called Sri JalakanteswararDharma
Sthabanam.
•The private trust had opposed the takeover, by approaching theHon’ble High Court of Madras.
However, nearly 10 years of legal proceedings resulted in the Hon’ble High Court ruling in favor of
theGovernment of Tamil Nadu.
•The temple structure is owned and maintained by theArchaeological Survey of India, with only the
administration taken over by the government.
•There is, therefore, no justification in handing over the temple to private persons who will only be
unaccountableto the public and perpetuate the racial crime of apartheidin every sphere of the
temple affairs in the name of the inapplicable and non-idolatrous Vedas and the improper and
unlawful traditions.

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31. Authority of the Chola king over temple
affairs
•Brahmin priest who stole the temple jewellerywas penalized by king.
(Page 541)
Temple was made to pay taxes to the Government, revenue dues on its
estates. (Page 541)

33. •“All the cash endowments amounting to several thousands of kasus
were loaned out to numerous village assemblies at rates of interest
fixed in kind or money, and generally ranging about 12% per annum.
Camphor, cardamom-seeds, campak-buds and cuscus-roots, for
instance, were provided for in this manner by means of cash
endowments.”
-Page 654 ibid

34. Emperor RajarajaChozhan:
steady and vigilant control
“The examples of searching periodical inquests by the highest officers
of the central government, sometimes by the king himself, into the
management and affairs of the temples, that are recorded in the
inscriptions, show that the Cola government realised the increasing
social importance of the role of the temple and the need for the exercise
of a steadyand vigilantcontrol on the business side of its affairs.”
Page –654 –The Colas –K. A. NilakantaSastri–University
of Madras –1935)

36. ParanthakaChozhan
•“Early in his reign is mentioned an
officer of his supervising temple
affairs in Kongu.”
-Page –115 –The Colas –K. A. NilakantaSastri–
University of Madras –1935)

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41. GOVERNMENT CONTROL ESSENTIAL

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•During the period of KulothungaCholan, the SungamThavirththaCholan, temples
were renovated and new temples built with government funds and it was
customary then to audit the accounts through government auditors.
•Epigraphical evidences testify to the fact of “audit of temple accounts by his
officers (15,23)”.
•Pages 9 and 10 of the book,“Subject Index to the Annual Reports on South
Indian Epigraphy –From 1887 to 1936 –By Rao Bahadur C. R. Krishnamacharlu,
Superintendent of Epigraphy –Government of India Press, Calcutta –1940”
contains many such important details of epigraphical evidences about the temples
of Tamil Nadu.

45. •KulothungaChola Marthandalayam, i.e., temple of the Sun-God at GangaiKonda cholapuram
(08,60),
•renovation of the Siva temple at Siddhalingamadamin his time (10,24),
•additions made to the Vyaghrapadesvaratemple at Tirumalavadiin his time (10,24),
•Temples repaired and improved in Kulothungan’stime (10,24)
•details of revenue administration in his time (10,24)
•shrine of Umaparameswariat Tirumalamfounded in his time (10,25),
•structures renovated or founded in his time (10,26),
•a shrine of his time in the Narasimha-Perumal temple at Narasingapuram(11,26),

47. •his officers that visited the Tiruvotriyurtemple (13,33),
•misappropriation of temple property and sale of hereditary rights during his
reign (15,23),
•stone temple at Tiruvaigavurbuilt in his time (15,23),
•worship, baliand processions in the temple at Kamarasavallirevived in his 26th
year (15,23),
•Jainatemple of Ambalappasvaminat Kovilangulam(15,24), Devaramhymns
compiled in his time (18,34),
•Surya temple built by him (27, 19 f),

48. •Even the additions made in the Big temple of Thanjavur during the period of the Maratha rule were done only from out of public funds and 88 temples had been directly managed only by the State then too (Page 191 -த"ைசமரா()யம+ன-காலஅர1ய23ச4தாயவா67ைக83-ேக. எ3. ெவ<கடராைமயா-1ற?@ Bைல?ேபரா1Dய- –அDய ைகெயEFGHIவ)FGைற -தK6?பLகைல7கழக3-த"சாN--1984). .
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•And that public money had been collected from the
Tamils by crushing them with heavy taxation by the
Maratha rulers. Vyankoji(1676-1684) “collected 3/4th
of the produce as tax and accumulated it for him in the temples”.
-(Page -102 -Tamil civilisation and Culture from
1336 to 1947 -NarsimhanC Sekar-for M. A (History)-AlagappaUniversity).

50. DR. KRISHNAMACHARIAR
IN HIS BOOK ON THE MADRAS RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS ACT 1927
•“The superintendence of public religious endowments is vested in the sovereign as the Protector of all public institutions. The Hindu and Mohammedan Governments exercised powers of control over religious institutions and after the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the advent of the British rule, this royal power descended to the British government. It was soon discovered that the produce of endowments was in many instances appropriated contrary to the intentions of the donors to the personal use of the individuals in immediate charge and possession of such endowments. The British government conscious of its duty to provide for the proper administration of all such endowments enacted Regulation XIX of 1810 in Bengal and Regulation VII of 1817 in Madras on similar terms” and in 1827in Bombay.
•-Quoted in Page 114 and 115 of the book Right of Temple Entry

51. •Temples were thus in the possession and control of the kings
even in the 17thcentury. The Petitioner in the main Writ Petition
wants just to hijack all these monumental public properties and
put them under people who are unaccountable to people and
society at large. He does not realisethat temples under private
management will wreck the entire society, especially when the
apartheidisticChaturvarnasystem is, still, in practice, in the
Hindu religious sphere, with extra weightage to that apartheidistictheory, in temple affairs and priesthood.

52. •It is a fact that the existing control over the temples by the
HR&CE Department itself is inadequate, as could be seen from
the manner in which some unscrupulous elements in the
TiruverumburThayumanasamyTemple could sneak in a public
advertisement calling for applications for the post of cooks in
that temple from the privileged caste. That there are still vested
interests who do not want to evolve an egalitarian social order
but want only to perpetuate the racial crime of apartheid through temples becomes evident from this episode also.

53. •It is only because of the government control over
the administration of temples that the Tamils
happened to have been born in the oppressed
castes in the same Hindu religion could become
Executive Officers in those temples. hat is
required for the society, at present, is to protect
public interest by having more effective control
by the government over the temples and more
transparent administration of the through the HR&CE Department.

54. •“In 1810 in the Bengal Presidency and in
1817 in the Madras Presidency the British
Government had assumed control of all the
public endowments and benefactions, Hindu
and Mohammadan, and placed them under
the charge of the respective Board of
Revenue” (Page 45 -Right of temple entry-
P Chidambaram Pillai).

55. •The enactment of the Act XX of 1863 was the outcome of only
the consistent insistence of Christian missionaries.
•The unwillingness of the British government to run the temple
affairs resulted in the enactment of the Religious Endowment
Act XX of 1863 which was enforced from 10.03.1863 in the
Presidencies of Bengal and Madras. “The Government divested
itself of the charge and placed them under the management of
such respective creeds”.
•Those temples were made to be administered through elected
bodies, which were to exercise powers vested in the Board of
Revenue till then in respect of those temples. Also, provisions
were made to make the administration accountable and its actions justiciable.

56. •I submit that the Indian Trusts Act was enacted later in 1882.
And the cases that went to Courts later showed enormous
amount of corruption and mismanagement by the private
committees that managed the temples. Hon’ble Judiciary had,
then, made it a routine to draw up a Scheme to regulate the
administration of the affairs of numerous temples whose cases came before it.

57. •The temple at Tirupathiwhich had been under the British administration from 1817 AD
had been made over to one Seva Doss, the Head of the HathiramjiMutt in the year 1843,
as per the directions of the Court of Directors in England in 1841. How corrupt the
successors of Seva Doss had been, can be seen from the text of the judgment of the
Privy Council in PrayagaDoss JeeVaruvs Tirumala AnandamPillai Purisa
SrirangacharyuluVaruon 08.02.1907 which has recorded the observations of the Hon’ble
High Court of Madras in the same case earlier. Hon’ble High Court had said, “Now, when
in 1843 the management was transferred to Seva Doss, it was, no doubt expected that
the management by the Mahant would prove satisfactory, but the history of what took
place subsequent to Seva Doss' death is, to put it shortly, a record of waste and
embezzlement”. (Page 138 –The Indian Law Reports –Vol. xxx –Madras series).

58. In the same case, Hon’ble High Court of Madras had recorded, earlier, the historical facts regarding
the control of the State over that temple as follows on 10.02.1905 in PrayagDoss Ji Varu, Mahant vs
SrirangacharluvaruAnd Anr:
•“Prior to the establishment of the British Government, the management of the institution
was directly under the ruler of the country for the time being. After the advent of the
British, the management passed into the hands of the East India Company, and
subsequent to the enactment of Regulation VII of 1817 of the Madras Code, it was
carried on under the control of the Board of Revenue through the Collector of the District.
…….. As already pointed out, the institution was completely under the control of the
public authorities up to 1843, and when the management was transferred to the Mahant
in that year, it was an arrangement made by the Board of Revenue in whom the control
of such institutions was then vested under the Regulation of 1817”.

59. Page 41 & 42 of the book ‘Right of temple entry’ by P Chidambaram Pillai, who concludes from the facts recorded by him in these pages, that the
•“temples were a legitimate source of public
revenue, always, to every ruler, who governed
India, Hindu, Mohammedan and Christian even
Smirtiswere binding upon nobody. It was good
old Chanakya –all the time”.

60. 3RDCENTURY BC
Temples were under the control of kings
The person in charge at the government level was
Superintendent (Secretary level IAS officer of the
department concerned)
Assets of rich temples were being taken over by kings

61. TAKING OVER TEMPLE ASSETS
¡“Spies under the guise of sorcerers, shall, under the
pretence of ensuring safety, carry away the money,
not only of the society of heretics and of temples, but
also of a dead man and also of a man whose house is
burnt, provided that is not enjoyable by Brahmans”.
-
--Book V-Chapter II -Replenishment of the Treasury –Arthasastra-R. ShamaSastry—Mysore Printing
and Publishing House -Page 275

62. BOOK V-CHAPTER II -ARTHASASTRA-R. SHAMASASTRY—PAGE 275

63. ¡“The Superintendent of religious institutions may
collect in one place the various kinds of property
of the Gods of fortified cities and country parts,
and carry away the property (to the king’s
treasury.”
-Book V-Chapter II -Replenishment of the Treasury –Arthasastra-R. ShamaSastry—Page 275
¡Present day HR&CE is not doing this Chanakya thuggery. It is protecting the temples
and its properties from the mischief makers who are still inside the temples.

69. “The act of appointment of archakaby the trustee
is essentially secular and not religious”
-Page 53 Justice Maharajan Committee Report

70. Abuse of priesthood

73. “The priest of a South Indian
temple is often richer than
many princes.”
(Page 175 & 176 Prostitution in India -Santosh Kumar Mukherji -Das Gupta &
co, Calcutta). That kind of material advancement was the real aim behind the
claim

74. HolkarVs. PuriSankaracharya
•Part 5

75. THE ‘ROYALS’ ARE MADE TO WASH THE FEET OF THE ‘RAJAGURU’. WHAT A
WAY TO TEACH THE ROYALS THEIR PLACE THAT THEY ARE LOWER IN RANK TO
THE PRIEST OF PRIESTS! WHAT A WAY TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD,
HOWEVER HIGH YOU MIGHT BE, THE PRIEST IS ABOVE YOU!
•“As part of the coronation
ceremony, Yaduveeralong with
PramodaDevi and other family
members were performing series of
rituals according to royal traditions
that included visits to temples and
‘padapuja’ to ‘Rajaguru’
BramhatantraParakalamutt seer
AbhinavaVageeshaBrahmatantra
SwatantraSwami”
•28.05.2015,

76. WALLOWING IN THE IMPORTANCE OF
VARNA FOR TEMPORAL BENEFITS-
POLITICS UNDER THE CONTROL OF
RELIGION
•This is made possible because of the
chaturvarna system, whose core is
priesthood.

77. Sankaracharya
is only a
Brahmin sect’s
leader
SankaraMutt premises used for
Brahmin Association meet.

79. Times Of India
13.09.2021

83. •And such people want Common Civil
Code.
•But they oppose common civil rights
within Hinduism.

84. During the debate in the Constituent Assembly on 27.08.1947, Rao Bahadur V. I. MunisamyPillai, a veteran activist who had headed the All India Depressed Classes Congress earlier said,
“Sir, there is a fear in the minds of some of my friends, especially the Scheduled Castes. that the Hindus are getting into power and that Hindu Raj is coming into force and they may introduce the Varnashrama that was obtaining years back, again to harass the Harijans”
-(Page 204 –Vol.V–14.08.1947 to 30.08.1947).

85. It is significant to note that the fear expressed on the
floor of the Constituent Assembly was not about
reservation but was about the resurrection of
Varnashramatrocities. It is submitted that his
apprehension would become true and the Chaturvarna
system re-reinforced with vigourand vengeance, once
the temples are taken away from government control,
given the fate meted out to the Hon’ble President of India himself.

86. Chaturvarnasystem is an uncivilized
concept and is racial crime, a crime
against humanity.
It should not be allowed to continue, if
we want to make a civilized society.

87. "A country where millions of people live on flowers
of the Mohua plant, and a million or two of sadhus
and a hundred million or so of Brahmins suck the
blood out of these poor people, without the least
effort for their amelioration --is that a country or
hell? Is that a religion or the devil's dance?”
-(CW, VI. 253).

88. •Said Vivekananda, in disgust, in his letter dated 20.09.1892 addressed to Pandit Shankarlalof Khetri,
•“What inference would you draw except that these Malabarisare all lunatics, their homes so many lunatic asylums,and that they are to be treated with derision by every race in India until they mend their manners and know better. Shame upon them that such wicked and diabolical customs are allowed.”

89. •“…..inTravancore,themostpriest-riddencountryinIndia—whereeverybitoflandisownedbytheBrahmins,andthefemales,evenoftheroyalfamily,holditashighhonortoliveinconcubinagewiththeBrahmins,nearlyone-fourthhasbecomeChristian!And,Icannotblamethem;whatparthavetheyinDavidandwhatinJesse?When,when,OLords,shallmanbebrothertoman?”
-Vivekananda, in his letter to Pandit Shankarlalof Khetrion 20.09.1892.

90. •The 1931 census of Travancore reveal the fact that each Brahmins or the Brahmins household had in their possession average 28 acres of land …
•Apart from the land, by their own birthrightas the head of the gramaswhich is called the Brahmasvamland, Brahmins also controlled the landed property of the temples namely the Devasvamland.
•Coming back to the ‘legitimacy’ of landed property as provided them in KERALA MAHATMYAM and KERALOLPATTI, it should be noted that the control over the land asjanmisor landlords in reality enabledthe Brahmins to dominate of the social hierarchy. Miller observes in the context of Kochi thus, “About one percent of Hindus are NambutiriBrahmins, the highest caste. Until recently their influence has been disproportionate to their number. Besides being the Hindu religious heads, many were wealthy landlords with numerous lower-caste retainers”.

91. Temples
and
temporal politics

92. Akal Takt
When the government had already taken
the stand, in the year 1984, that a minority
religion’s Akal Takt had harbouredterrorists
and consequent to that stand, sent the
army inside that temple in June 1984, and

93. when the vested
interests allege that
another minority
religion’s Madarasaas
are breeding
terrorism,

94. •there is no reason to let the temples and mutts of majority religion go out of the government
control and monitoring.
•Because history testifies to the fact that temples had been used for terrorist activities to assassinate
kings and leaders during the era of Arthasastraitself, posing seditious threat to the sovereign
government itself. The manner in which the priests controlled the rulers and conspired against them
has been recorded in numerous places in history.
•Allowing them to go out of government control would pose very serious threat to the governments
elected on popular mandate which, in turn, would affect the national interest very severely.

96. Chanakya, the first political terrorist had perfected the
art of using temples to assassinate kings and leaders
•"Contrivance to kill the enemy may be formed in those
places of worship and visit, which the enemy, under the
influence of faith, frequents on occasions of
worshipping gods and of pilgrimage. A wall or stone,
kept by mechanical contrivances, may, by loosening the
fastenings, be let to fall on the head of the enemy
when he has entered into a temple.... Weapons kept
inside the body of an idol may be thrown over his head”
-(Page 428 -Chapter V -Book XII -Arthasastra)

97. •“....holding conversation with or
worshipping the spies who pretend to be
the gods of .. in the interior of a hollow
image.”
-(Page 433 ibid.)

98. •“... Any person, disguised as an ascetic ... in the
interior of an idol entered through a tunnel or an
underground chamber”
-(Page 436 -Chapter II -Book XIII -ibid.)

99. “...When the enemy is in the habit of paying
frequent visits to ascetics, altars, sacred
pillars (Stupa), and images of gods, spies
hidden in underground chambers or in
subterranean passages, or inside the walls,
may strike him down"
-(Page 438 ibid.).

100. !

102. •“…or under the plea of giving him flowers, scented powders or of
causing scented smoke, he may be poisoned” (Page 428 –Book XI –
Chapter V-Arthasastra).

104. •Morning prayers at the Kashi Temple used to begin with the playing of shehnai (an instrument played at auspicious occasions) by UstadBismillah Khan (1914-2006), a practising Muslim who was awarded the highest national civilian award, Bharat Ratna.
•Khan in his autobiographical descriptions stated proudly that his mesmerizing shehnai skill was due to the blessings of Vishwanath, the eternal Shiva. It is to be noted that it was not only Kashi Vishwanath Temple where morning prayers used to start with musical rendering by a Muslim musician.
•The prayers at Maa Sharda Temple at Maiharin Madhya Pradesh used to start with the playing of sarod by UstadAlauddinKhan (1862-1972) who also founded MaiharGharana of the Indian music.

105. PRIEST-RIDDEN EGYPT AND INDIA
•Priesthood gives a lever to the clergy to wield extraordinary
power in every religion. In regard toEgyptian religious
system of the yore, William Howitt sums up the “notorious”
“priest-ridden condition” there by quoting Lord Shaftesbury
who calls Egypt as the “mother-land of superstitions”. Howitt
says, “So completely the lordly and cunning priesthood here
contrived to fix themselves on the shoulders of the people,
so completely to debase and stupifythem with an
overwhelming abundance of foolish veneration..”.
•-(Page 30 -Priestcraftby William Howitt).

108. Abuse of the position of power in the
temples
and
syphoning of temple property for
sectarian ends

109. •In the area that was under the jurisdiction of Tipu, "The social
changes took place as a result of the economic reforms. Prior to
the intervention of the Mysoreans, majority of the land in Kerala
was in the hands of the ‘Naduvazhi’s, Namboodiri brahmins and
temples. Usually land revenue was not remitted to the
government by these land holders. The principal owners of
land, the Namboodiriscollected high rate of rent from the
intermediary farmers the 'kanakkar.'... HyderAli had exempted
the Dewaswamland from the calculation of land revenue, but Tipu(who reigned from 1782–1799)imposed revenue even on
the Dewaswamland also. ( GangadharanT. K., Kerala History –
Pages226-227 -1992).

110. •“Tipuconsidered that temple lands were mostly managed for
the benefit of a select few higher caste peopleand therefore he had them assessed to land tax.”(AmmadKunnath–Page 219 –
Ponnaniduring Mysoreaninterlude-Shodhganga).
•“The stoppage of the exemption given to the Dewaswamland
curtailed the socio-economic dominance of the Namboodirisin the
society. The common people now understood that the
unquestionable power and authority of the Namboodiri
could be questioned by a superior power. It was for the first
time that the Brahmin dominance over Kerala society which had
continuously existed for about a thousand years was questioned and
shattered. Once the economic superiority declined the social superiority automatically declined." (GangadharanT. K –op.cit).

111. •“All Hindus were equal before Mysoreanrulers. Several
measures of the Mysoreanrulers, especially of TipuSultan,
served to shatter the myth of social superiority of the
higher castesand instilled among the members of the lower classes a consciousness of their own dignity and status” (Page
345 –A history of Kerala 1498 –1801 –K. M. Panikkar).

112. •That is why the chaturvarnaelements try to portray TipuSultan
as a villain, as is their tradition from the days of Dhana Nanda.
They believe in the eternal ignorance of the Non-Brahmins.
They think that the people do not know the crimes committed
by the priests in the temples and through the temples. It is a
fact that many a property vested in temples as endowments as
service inamswere, in due course, taken over and gobbled up
by the priests as personal inamsfor themselves. When the
Government proposed investigation into the issue and
confiscate such misappropriated property, they resisted it (For
more: Page 145 –History of Hindu Religious Endowments in
Andhra Pradesh –KouthaNirmala Kumari).

113. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND
REASONS 1923
•BUT THE SCHEMES FRAMED BY THE COURTS DID NOT IMPROVE MATTERS.
•IN THE STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS FOR THE MHRE ACT 1923, IT WAS OBSERVED, “DURING
RECENT YEARS A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF SCHEMES HAVE BEEN SETTLED BY COURTS FOR THE
ADMINISTRATION OF SPECIFIC RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS, MANY OF WHICH HAVE PROVED
UNSATISFACTORY AND IT IS FELT IN MANY QUARTERS THAT ADMINISTRATION UNDER SOME OF THESE
SCHEMES IS EVEN WORSE THAN ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE ACT OF 1863”
•SCHEME SUIT BUSINESS.

116. Devadasi system

117. Devadasis were “exorbitantly patronized by the NambootiriBrahmin Janmis
and feudal chieftains who led a life of ease and luxury. Because of this
system, a number of noble families collapsed as the male members went
after the devadasi women spending their money…The truth is that Brahmins
and kings used to fight for the possession of these girls. Ultimately the
conflict was resolved by an understanding and the Devadasis were branded
on their chest with emblems of ‘Garuda’ (Eagle) and ‘Chakra’ (Discus) for kings and ‘Shankh’ (Conch) to Brahmins; Branded just like animals, slaves
and Jew women Auschwitz”
(Ref: (a) Page 271-283 –Studies in Kerala History -P.N. ElamkulamKunjan
Pillai, (b) Article ‘Devadasi System in Indian Temples by Zoya Zaid, (c) Page
42 of the article ‘Position of women in South Travancore” in Shodganga
website of the Government of India in -
https://sg.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/242067/7/07_chapter1.pdfand
(d) the book "Devadasi: Shodhani Bodh” by Vasant Rajas in Marathi -SugavaPrakashanPublishers).
Custom cannot be a basis for a law, when it is not based on justice.

119. SatyamurthyIyerwanted
Devadasi system to continue in
spite of the fact that it affected
the family life of Brahmin
women
In
1917

123. uTemples had been built in accordance with the rules contained in the Agamas (the
Dravidian set of rules on idolatry, later translated into Sanskrit) and not the Vedas
(which denounced idolatry). “The Agamic literature is characterized as pseudo-
scripture, a conspiracy of the grace of Siva and Vishnu directed against the Vedic
path” as recorded in Brahma Sutra II 2.38 and AbhinavaSankara.
u“These commentaries and views embodied in the later works speak of the cultural
antagonism and the resentment of orthodoxy against the Agamic religions
existing in the earlier times” (Page 34-Brahmanas in Ancient India , A study in
the role of the Brahman class from c.200 BC to c.500AD. -Govind Prasad
Upadyay–Published by MusnshiramManoharlalPublishers Pvt.Ltd–First Edition
1979).

124. Personal Inamand Service Inam

131. Even when the case is pending in the SC

133. •The Report of the Hindu Religious Endowments Commission (1960-62)
headed by C.P. Ramaswamy Iyerset up by the Government of India had
said,
•“As regards the question of Government interference, we may point out
that it has been our experience that the administration of Hindu religious
endowments is fairly satisfactory in those States where there are
enactments regulating their administrationand that in those States where
there are no such enactments, conditions are not only not satisfactory but
have resulted in general apathy and consequent neglect of the institutions”
(Page 124).

134. Vaishnodevi
•Jagmohanwas accused in the Petition before the SC that he was an
Arya Samajiand not a SanataniHindu. If Aryan Samajibecomes
member of the Board, it “would totally destroy the right of the
SanataniHindu denomination to manage the religious affairs of the
shrine”. (India Today –31.03.1987).
•Jagmohanwas accused of “suffering from uncontrollable
megalomania”.

135. •Government affidavit quotes from a recent note recorded by
Jagmohanwho trekked 14 km to the shrine from Katrabefore the
takeover. It says: "Whereas I was much impressed by the halos of
murtisand unflinching faith of the devotees. I was shocked by the
material and moral corruption that prevailed all around.If anyone
wants to see the degeneration of our society one has nothing else to
do but to walk from Katrato the (VaishnoDevi) cave. One would get the impression not of a wounded civilisationbut of a society
stricken with terminal illness.”
•Private management of Karan Singh, said “The newly constituted
board is a wholly foreign body and the mere inclusion of some
stooges of the governor in the board cannot clothe it with religious
sanctity and general public respectability.”

136. •In1925,theMadrasHinduReligiousEndowmentsAct,1923(ActIof1925)waspassedbythelocalLegislaturewiththeobjectofprovidingforbettergovernanceandadministrationofcertainreligiousendowments.TheActdividedtemplesintowhatareknownasexceptedandnon-exceptedtemples.
•ImmediatelyaftertheActcameintoforce,itsvaliditywaschallengedonthegroundthattheActwasnotvalidlypassed.Forthisreason,thelegislatureenactedtheMadrasHinduReligiousEndowmentsAct,1926,ActIIof1927repealingActIof1925.
•Thebillwaspassedon17.9.1926andplacedonthestatutebookastheMadrasHinduReligionsandEndowmentsActof1927.Theauthorityofthesovereigngovernmentovertheadministrationoftempleshad,thus,beensubjectedtojudicialreviewalready.

137. Government control a blessing
•“The superintendence of public religious endowments is vested in the sovereign as the Protector of
all public institutions. The Hindu and Mohammedan Governments exercised powers of control over
religious institutions and after the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the advent of the British rule,
this royal power descended to the British government. It was soon discovered that the produce of
endowments was in many instances appropriated contrary to the intentions of the donors to the
personal use of the individuals in immediate charge and possession of such endowments. The
British government conscious of its duty to provide for the proper administration of all such
endowments enacted Regulation XIX of 1810 in Bengal and Regulation VII of 1817 in Madras on
similar terms” and in 1827in Bombay.
•(Dr. Krishnamachariyarin his book on the Madras Religious Endowments Act, 1927 as quoted in
Page 114 & 115 of the book Right to temple entry by Advocate P. Chidambaram in 1931).
•The government control, thus, became a blessing to the temple properties and a bane for those who abused their access to the power centers in the temples and looted them.

139. Camera

140. Chidambaram temple episode

141. 13/11/22, 6:29 PMThiruchendur Murugan Temple Priests Attacked Policeman ?? VIRAL VIDEO - Chennai Memes
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Temple Priests Attacked
Policeman ?? VIRAL VIDEO
Dhiwaharan
AUGUST 2, 2022
A shocking report emerged saying that a group of priests in the world famous
Thiruchendur Murugan temple attacked a policeman who questioned them for
receiving bribes from devotees and making them get “Tharshan” by rushing the
space that is allotted for senior citizens. Videos of priests receiving bribe from
devotees were recorded by other devotees and are trending in social media
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Thiruchendur Murugan
Temple Priests Attacked
Policeman ?? VIRAL VIDEO
Dhiwaharan
AUGUST 2, 2022
A shocking report emerged saying that a group of priests in the world famous
Thiruchendur Murugan temple attacked a policeman who questioned them for
receiving bribes from devotees and making them get “Tharshan” by rushing the
space that is allotted for senior citizens. Videos of priests receiving bribe from
devotees were recorded by other devotees and are trending in social media
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143. Hate-speech sites

146. Their plan

148. Times of India 29.08.2017

150. Patel and Ajmer Sharif
•“On another occasion when he moved a Bill as the Home
Minister of India to appoint an administrator to run the affairs
of shrine of Ajmer Sharif by removing those who were causing
problems many members opposed it. In response to that
opposition Sardar replied and asserted, "If the Government
received any complaints from pilgrims to Gaya or any other
place about the extortion of the Hindu pandas the Government
would be prepared to take action and clear them also." He firmly
maintained that "Cleaning of sacred places had to be done
quickly in these days of revolution. Slow process will kill the
cleaner himself."

151. ந"# !