Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Tirumala Temple – Administrative control before, during and after the British East India Company Did you know that the Tirumala Temple, which was under rise since 8th century or even much earlier under the patronage of Hindu Kings, came under the purview of the British East India Company indirectly controlling the Nawab of Arcot from 1751 AD and directly for the first time in 1801, and guided under specific 42 rules of the Bruce’s Code of 1821 until 1842-43 AD, in the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria?  The Tirumala Temple as a religious institution came under the special protection of the royal Hindu kings from hoary times with legendary stories. The earliest ruler who discovered the idol of Tiruvengadamudayan, later known as Lord Venkateshwara or Srinivasa was the Hindu ruler called Tondamana of Tondamandalam from early parts of the third century (or 813 AD?) followed by a stream of dedicated rulers/emperors of different regimes who not only built...