Ayodhya dispute

The Ayodhya dispute is a political, historical and socio-religious debate in India, centred on a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya, located in Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh. The main issues revolve around access to a site traditionally regarded among Hindus to be the birthplace of the Hindu deity Rama, the history and location of the Babri Mosque at the site, and whether a previous Hindu temple was demolished or modified to create the mosque.

Quotes

While a temple was going up in Ayodhya, a communist temple was being demolished five thousand miles away in Europe. If this is not history, I do not know what is. ~ Jay Dubashi

• On the very same day the first brick of the Ram Shila foundation was being laid at Ayodhya, the Berliners were removing bricks from the Berlin Wall. While a temple was going up in Ayodhya, a communist temple was being demolished five thousand miles away in Europe. If this is not history, I do not know what is.
  • Jay Dubashi, The Road to Ayodhya (Voice of India, 1992), ch. 8; quoted in Koenraad Elst, Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism (New Delhi: Rupa, 2014), pp. 302-3

See also

• Ayodhya firing incident
• Ayodhya
• Ram Janmabhoomi
• Ram Rath Yatra
• Godhra train burning