Colonial Subjugation Seizure, Taxation and Ruin of Hindu Temples🔗

"It was a strange but determined piece of policy when throughout the country the pagoda lands were resumed by the [East India Company] and tusdeck allowances were granted in their place… Now let us contemplate the result of this plan. From one end of the country to the other, the pagodas are ruined, unmaintained…The revenues of Tripetty are on a gradual decline and will die in the lapse of years a natural death. Some of the most celebrated temples in the country are worse off. But there are still, alas, many more strongholds of the devil."

Asiatic Journal (1831)