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Article: Incident at Ayodhya. (India) (social and political significance of the Hindu destruction of a n historic Muslim mosque)
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- National Review
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- March 15, 1993
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Surrounded by the unforgiving red dust of Kipling's northern India lies the unremarkable town of Ayodhya, a site of recent violence which triggered riots nationwide. Ayodhya's problem, which predates British entry into the subcontinent, stems from the fact that it is thought to contain the birthplace of Rama, one of the most important avatars of the god Vishnu and the subject of the Ramayana, one of the two great epics of Hinduism. Yet, until last December's riots destroyed it, a Muslim mosque dominated the location.
Many Hindus believe that Ayodhya's problematic mosque was erected by order of a sixteenth-century Moghul emperor over the ruins of a temple to Rama ...
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