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Chronicle · 12 November 1936

Temple Entry Proclamation of Travancore

Found
Issued at Thiruvananthapuram by Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma on his birthday
Kept at
Kerala State Archives; the text is widely printed

The royal order that opened every temple under the Travancore government to all Hindus, whatever their caste.

What it says

The Maharaja, ‘solicitous that none of our Hindu subjects should, by reason of birth or caste or community, be denied the consolation and the solace of the Hindu faith’, ordered that no Hindu by birth or religion be barred from entering or worshipping at the temples controlled by the state, subject to rules for keeping their atmosphere and rituals.

What it proves

It ended, by the act of a Hindu king, the bar that the Vaikom and Guruvayur satyagrahas had fought, and showed temple entry could come from within the dharma.

Evidence for