affairs of the
temple were not managed properly. In 1934 a Firman was
issued by the Udaipur Darbar, by which, inter alia, it was
declared ... rights of the parties affected there by and that,
accordingly, the Firman issued by the Maharana of Udaipur in
1934 was a law by which
having been lost even prior to the Constitution by virtue of the Firmans of the Maharaja of Patiala no relief can be claimed ... management of Sikh Gurdwaras in the erstwhile State of Pepsu. By a Firman-I-Shahi dated November 2. 1946, the Maharaja of Patiala declared
Pramukh as aforesaid all
Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Rules, Regulations, Notifications,
Hidayate Firman-i-Shahi, having force of law in Patiala
State on the date
hereditary defendant of the saint. Then
he referred to the firman of Shahjehan issued in 1629 by
which the Emperor ordered that the Mutawalli appointed ... left of the Sajjadanashin at the
Mahfils. Similarly the firman issued by Aurangzeb in 1667
directed the order of sitting at the Mahfils by laying
Nizam could take away every vestige of right by a Firman he could equally take away a part of them and at the date
basis that he was a Mahant governed by terms of the Firman, amount to a right to property under Article 19 (1)(f) or constitute
limitations upon
his authority to act in any of these
capacities. The Firmans were expressions of
the sovereign will of the Nizam anti they
Were ... though it could be annulled
or modi-fied by a later 'Firman' at any time
that the Nizam willed.
The, Nizam
