Waqf boards
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🗓️ One Year Ago Today: The Taj Mahal, Sacred Lands, and the Power of Timing
Open thread for 17 September 2025. X.T.M announces a pause on one commenter’s participation over what he calls inconsistent standards on India, Pakistan and Israel, and revisits his 2024 post…
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The Battle for the Taj Mahal & India’s Sacred Lands: Waqf Boards Under Fire
X.T.M explains India’s waqf properties, about 900,000 holdings across 2.3 million acres, and the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024, which proposes around 40 changes including non-Muslim and women members on boards…
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Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences
X.T.M relays a paper asking why India’s Muslims are poorer than Hindus, reading it as tracing the gap to Muslim inheritance law and the illiquid waqf, against the Hindu joint…
