411 REFERENCE · Wikiquote
Ayodhya dispute
Reference material by Wikiquote contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
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
thumb|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
External links
Category:Uttar Pradesh
Category:Hindu nationalism