Right of Temple Entry

Contents: 1. General. 2. Judicial logic. 3. In the days of Chanakya. 4. Temples and drinking saloons were state institutions. 5. Legal confusion. 6. Temple revenues are public revenues. 7. Origin of temple trustees and their powers. 8. Transfer of control by British Government. 9. From the British to the Brahmin. 10. Cosmopolitan character of Hindu temples. 11. Fundamental tenets of the Agamas. 12. Who are the temple priests? 13. Agamas are cosmopolitan. 14. Jain and Buddhist temples also become Hindu temples. 15. Architects and Hindu temples. 16. Saivism and Smarthaism. 17. Who is a Hindu? 18. Christianity and Hinduism. 19. Change of control. 20. Protestant Christian Missions. 21. Effects of the changes. 22. Travancore and Christian Missions. 23. Public rights over women’s dress. 24. Hinduism in Travancore. 25. Right of the caste Hindu. 26. The Tiyas of Travancore. 27. The rise of the caste Hindu. 28. Opposition to temple entry. 29. The Christian attitude. 30. The Brahmin in Travancore. 31. The Kamudi Temple case. 32. The Kamudi Temple case (Continued). 33. The Kamudi Temple case (Continued). 34. Professional restrictions to temple entry. 35. Allied problems. 36. Right-hand and left-hand factions. 37. The origin of the factions. 38. Lawyers: Hindu and Mohammedan. Appendix.