“The Waqf debate: India’s struggle since 1185—introduced by Ghori, institutionalised by Iltutmish, legalised by Jinnah—and now, among the country’s largest landholders”, Opindia, April 2, 2025:
“In Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli district, 70-year-old farmer Rajagopal was preparing to sell his 1.2-acre land to fund his daughter’s wedding. He had cherished this dream for years—to see his daughter get married with grandeur and send her off with pride. But when he arrived at the sub-registrar’s office to complete the sale, his world was turned upside down.
Officials handed him a 20-page document, stating that the land he and his ancestors had cultivated for generations was not his own—it belonged to the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board.
For Rajagopal, this was nothing short of a nightmare. But the shock didn’t end there. It wasn’t just his land—his entire village, Tiruchenthurai, home to the 1,500-year-old Sundareswarar Temple, had also been declared Waqf property…….”
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