law: Societies Registration Act, 1860
  20. To what societies Act applies
  The following societies may be registered
  
  under this Act:-
  Charitable societies, the military orphan
  
  funds or societies established at the several presidencies of India, societies
  
  established for the promotion of science, literature, or the fine arts for
  
  instruction, the diffusion of useful knowledge, 1[the diffusion of
  
  political education], the foundation or maintenance of libraries or
  
  reading-rooms for general use among the members or open to the public or public
  
  museums and galleries of paintings and other works of art, collections of
  
  natural history, mechanical and philosophical inventions, instruments, or
  
  designs.