The Ayodhya Debate
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Ayodhya Debate
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:13 |
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A
remarkable aspect of the Ayodhya debate is the complete lack of active
involvement by Western scholars. Their role has been limited to that of
loudspeakers for the secularist-cum-Islamist party-line denying that any temple
demolition had preceded the construction of the Babri Masjid. Even those who
(like Hans Bakker and Peter Van der Veer) had earlier given their innocent
support to the historical account, putting the Ayodhya case in the context of
systematic Islamic iconoclasm, hurried to fall in line once the secularist
campaign of history-rewriting started.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:34 |
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Read more... [The Details about "Hindu Iconoclasm]
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Articles -
Ayodhya Debate
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 11:01 |
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Let us elaborate one example of
pro-Buddhist bias in modern indologist scholarship. It has to do with a story
of alleged Hindu persecution of Buddhism by Pushyamitra, a general in the
service of the declining Maurya dynasty, who founded the Shunga dynasty after a
coup d'tat. This story serves as the standard secularist refutation of the
"myth" that Hinduism has always been tolerant.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:34 |
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Read more... [Why Pushyamitra was more "secular" than Ashoka]
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Articles -
Ayodhya Debate
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:58 |
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During
the Ayodhya controversy, there were occasional statements in the
Hindutva camp confirming (VHP) or denying (BJP) that apart from Ram
Janmabhoomi, two other sacred sites should also be liberated from
Islamic occupation: Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura and Kashi Vishvanath
in Varanasi. Though the Hindu business community in central Varanasi
has made it clear that it refuses to suffer the inevitable losses which
would accompany an agitation in their densely populated neighbourhood,
the liberation of Kashi Vishvanath is still on the VHPs agenda.
Therefore, some authors have tried to do an Ayodhya on Kashi, viz. try
to make people believe that there never was a Hindu temple at the
disputed site.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:34 |
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Read more... [Why did Aurangzeb Demolish the Kashi Vishvanath?]
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Articles -
Ayodhya Debate
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:00 |
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In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi gave in to Muslim pressure in the Shah Bano affair. Overruling a secular court's decision that the repudiated wife Shah Bano was entitled to alimony from her ex-husband, he enacted a law abolishing the alimony provision in conformity with the Shari'a. Since India, unlike secular states, already had religion-based Civil Codes, this concession merely brought the minor matter of alimony under the purview of the prevailing arrangement. More importantly, it prevented riots.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:34 |
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Read more... [What if Rajiv Gandhi hadn't unlocked the Babri Masjid in 1986?]
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Articles -
Ayodhya Debate
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:00 |
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The
North-Indian town of Ayodhya
is scene to a controversy over a Hindu sacred site, the Rama Janmabhoomi or
"birthplace of Rama". That is where a mosque, the Babri Masjid,
was built in forcible replacement of an earlier Hindu temple, in 1528 under
Moghul emperor Babar at the latest, and demolished by a Hindu crowd in
1992. The controversy pits Hindu activists against a combine of Muslim
activists and the so-called "secularists", an array of Hindu-born
Marxists and US-oriented 'globalists' who share a hatred of Hindu
assertiveness.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:34 |
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Read more... [Found and Lost: the Ayodhya Evidence]
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