History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c44.73.6

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about the principal religious and charitable institution in the Deccan, viz. the Chinchvad Samsthan, whereby he set apart one half of all properties bestowed on the shrine at that place for purely religious and charitable purposes and distributed the other half between the manager and his kinsmen who were all descendants of the original founder, Shri Moraya Gosavi (vide *Chintaman v. Dhondo* 15 Bom. 612 at p. 615). A similar award was made by the Peshwa in 1777-78 A. D. about the Brahmanal Samsthan in the Satara District (*vide Annaji v. Narayana* 21 Bom. 536). This privilege of ancient rulers to redress grievances and correct abuses in the management of religious and charitable endowments devolved upon the British Government as laid down by the Privy Council in *Rajah Muthu Ramlinga v. Perianayagum Pillai*, L. R 1 I. A. 209 at p. 232 'It is evident...that the British Government, by virtue of its sovereign power, asserted as the former rulers of the country had done, the right to visit endowments of this kind and to prevent and redress abuses in their management'. The Indian Central and Provincial Legislatures have placed on the Statute book many Acts regulating religious and charitable endowments. A list of the most important of these enactments is given below.²¹¹¹