Can God Be Trademarked? Jagannath Dham Controversy Explained | UPSC Current Affairs | Pratik Nayak

Can a God be trademarked? SJTA has filed 29 trademark applications to protect Jagannath Dham's name and symbols after Bengal's Digha temple row. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 🏛️ Get India's Best UPSC Prep @ ₹16,999 Before the Price Hike 🚀 https://unacademy.com/goal/upsc-civil... ⏳ Offer Ends: 28th July 📈 Starting Price Increases to ₹24,999 After the Offer. ✨ What's Included? 🎯 1 Month Extra to stay covered till Mains 👨‍🏫 Learn from India's Top UPSC Educators 📝 Comprehensive GS, CSAT, Test Series & PYQs 📱 Unlimited Live + Recorded Classes 📘 Choose Your Plan 🔹 12 Months + 1 Month Extra 🔹 24 Months + 1 Month Extra + CSE Assure* 🔹 36 Months + 1 Month Extra + CSE Assure* ⚡ Don't wait for the price to go up. Secure your UPSC prep today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pratik Nayak breaks down why the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) is racing to trademark names like "Jagannath Dham," "Mahaprasad," and "Nilachakra" — and whether a temple, a name, or even a god can legally be owned under India's Trademark Act, 1999. From the Digha temple controversy to precedents like Mahindra vs IndiGo (BE6), the ISKCON Apparel case, and GI-tagged Tirupati Laddu — this video maps out the legal, constitutional, and civilizational questions UPSC aspirants need for GS Paper 2 and Current Affairs. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Can a god be trademarked? 1:31 - Why the controversy erupted 1:39 - Jagannath Puri Temple's 12th-century history 1:50 - Digha temple in Bengal, same design 2:24 - Ancient India's temple replication precedent 4:21 - Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva's temple 6:00 - Digha replica uses the same "Jagannath Dham" name 6:32 - Trademark Act 1999 & SJTA's 29 applications 7:49 - Can a temple or a god hold a trademark? 8:15 - Mahindra vs IndiGo: the BE6 precedent 9:07 - SJTA's case: unauthorised "Mahaprasad thali" sales 10:03 - Mecca, Golden Temple, Char Dham comparisons 11:01 - Counter-view: faith belongs to everyone 11:32 - GI tags: Tirupati Laddu, Vatican symbols 11:57 - The ISKCON Apparel trademark case 12:46 - Royal copper-plate land grants, historically 13:05 - What's next: Kashi Vishwanath, Vaishno Devi, Kumbh 14:07 - Should India draw a line between faith and IP? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👨‍🏫 About the Educator ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👨‍🏫 Learn from the MOST Trusted History Educator Pratik Nayak Sir has helped thousands of aspirants crack UPSC Prelims & Mains through conceptual clarity + current affairs integration. 👉 Profile: https://unacademy.com/@nayakpratik 👉 Free Classes: https://unacademy.com/@nayakpratik/sp... 👉 History Optional Batch: https://unacademy.com/batch/qep-optio... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 Follow for DAILY UPSC EDGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/unstoppablesupsc 👉 Instagram:   / unacademyupscias   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Let's Crack It! #JagannathDham #PuriTemple #SJTA #Trademark #TrademarkAct1999 #DighaTemple #UPSC #UPSCCurrentAffairs #GSPaper2 #IntellectualPropertyRights #UPSCPreparation #CurrentAffairs2026 #Unacademy #PratikNayak #UPSCCSE Jagannath Dham trademark,Jagannath Puri temple,SJTA trademark,Puri temple trademark,Jagannath Dham vs Digha temple,Digha Jagannath temple controversy,can god be trademarked,Trademark Act 1999 UPSC,GI tag vs trademark,intellectual property rights UPSC,UPSC current affairs 2026,GS Paper 2 UPSC,UPSC CSE current affairs,Pratik Nayak UPSC,Prateek Nayak Unacademy,Unacademy UPSC,जगन्नाथ धाम ट्रेडमार्क,जगन्नाथ पुरी मंदिर न्यूज़,Mahindra IndiGo trademark case,ISKCON trademark case