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28 years since a mob destroyed the #babrimasjid, a rare Babur-period mosque. How much do you know about this event and its repercussions?
On some of the lead-up to this terrible event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GMT18TMNQbY&app=desktop
Basic timeline of key events (note that 300+ year gap between events 1 and 2... the #babrimasjid dispute has always been a modern issue, not a premodern one): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11436552
The Babri Masjid's destruction reverberated throughout the academy also. One example, this set of articles digging into the evidence of temple desecrations in premodern India: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_eaton_temples1.pdf
The Ayodhya verdict was a watershed moment in the Babri Masjid dispute and the development of the Hindu Rashtra. I wrote about some of it here [replug]: https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/ayodhya-babri-masjid-ram-mandir-supreme-court-audrey-truschke
Now, a temple is being built on the spot of an illegally destroyed mosque...
There is a logic to that Ram temple of identity with the state that rings a bit familiar to me as a historian. Although it is a logic that many of us preferred to leave in the past.
There is a logic to that Ram temple of identity with the state that rings a bit familiar to me as a historian. Although it is a logic that many of us preferred to leave in the past.
