"Waqf is the third-largest landowner in India, after Defence and the Railways, with much of its landholding, rather amusingly, pre-independence—an endowment of the insidious give and take between the British and the Muslims they desired to pacify. Indeed, many of the Waqf landholdings go as far back as 1857. Seventy-seven percent of Delhi is on Waqf land, including the Delhi High Court. Central Vista, which has recently been renovated, and on whose hallowed turf new government buildings will shimmer and glisten, is on Waqf land. CGO Complex and Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium are on Waqf land. Only three things are certain in an Indian’s life—death, taxes, and that, knowingly or unknowingly, he ends up walking every day on Waqf land."
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(2023.) Hindus in Hindu Rashtra : Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid. by Anand Ranganathan chapter 3
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