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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
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      "chunk_data": "163. INDIAN CHURCH ACT (1927 A.D.)\nOn 22nd December 1927, the British Parliament acted in consequence of the Indian Church Measure already passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England. Some of the provisions of the Indian Church Act are reproduced here. Cited in C. J. Grimes, Towards an Indian Church, pp. 209-218.",
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      "chunk_data": "And whereas for the purpose of giving effect to certain changes consequential on the said Measure it is expedient that the provisions hereinafter contained should be enacted by Parliament:",
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        "event": "The Act ended the monarch's right to appoint or nominate anyone to a bishopric in the Indian Church.",
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      "chunk_data": "3. Save as expressly provided in this Act or in rules made thereunder:\n(i) Notwithstanding any defects or informalities in the documents or proceedings, it is declared that where any church or burial ground has been consecrated before the commencement of this Act with the approval or at the request of a competent civil authority and the site thereof was at the date of the sentence of consecration and has ever since remained vested in the Crown such consecration shall be deemed to have conferred upon the Indian Church and upon its officials and members respectively such rights of possession, control, and user of the site and buildings (if any) as they respectively would have had if prior to the pronouncing of the sentence of consecration the site and buildings had been conveyed or assured to a person or persons who hold the same on behalf or in trust for the Indian Church:",
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