Historical Looting of Hindu Temples

It has now been revealed that more than 300 deities have been destroyed and thrown away in the destruction of the Kashi Corridor. More than 250 buildings with ancient temples that stood for more than 300 years have been demolished. Just days ago 5 Hindu Sanyasis were attacked in the middle of the night as Kashi Sarvajnapeetam was surrounded and the Sanyasis beaten and kidnapped. Despite a Court Order protecting the ancient Mandir, the illegal destructive attack broke walls and floors and ceilings and dropped stones on the deities installed inside the temple. Even temples described in Puranas have been destroyed while blasting the Corridor, sacred deities have been laid waste without even a trace. The Kattuppasathy Madasamy temple in Tamil Nadu’s Tenkasi had been a place of worship for generations. It was demolished just a few days back by district administration and police. With an apparent “secular complaint” about renovation of the temple to district administration, eye witnesses said, “within no time the police descended on the village with JCB’s and razed our temple ignoring all our pleas.” (Organiser.org) Hindus are a vast minority in the area and attacks by radicals on Hindus in the area is said not to be uncommon. It is claimed life-negative, destructive elements are acting to artificially create communal disharmony with attacks against various communities and utilising media and administration to falsify and skew reporting of local issues. Even by the 1840’s numerous complaints about misappropriation and mismanagement of Tirumala and Tirupati temple funds lead to an official backing off of the East India Company from the temple in exchange for operation by proxy by a Mahant, on behalf of the Company – with yearly financial remittance paid to the Company. (GreatGameIndia) Reaction to this policy can still be seen today as crores of rupees and priceless artifacts, including alankaram of Lord Venkateshwara of Tirupati have gone “missing”. And although the looting of the temple is ongoing behind closed doors, publicly the temple Mahants are easy scapegoats to blame for TTD misappropriations. In 1919 the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms created the “steel frame” of British proxy rule in India which persists to today. Under the Mahant system for a century Tirumala was plundered officially by the East India Company which had immediate control over all matters of the temple until the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Act of 1932 settled under the scheme by the Privy Council. (GreatGameIndia) To take over full control over religious institutions all over India the idea of establishing a Board of Commissioners on the lines of the Board of Charity Commission in England was conceived. A bill was accordingly drafted and the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act (HERB) came into existence in 1925 giving power of supervision and control over the Temples and Mutts of India. (GreatGameIndia) (20 June 2020) ————————————— Visit us around the web: Facebook: https://facebook.com/HNGlobalPress Youtube: https://youtube.com/HinduismNow Twitter: https://twitter.com/HN_Global_Press Instagram: https://instagram.com/KailasaHinduismNow/ ————————————— #HinduismNow #Kailasa #Nithyananda

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