Contentious Conversation(*). From: Social Research | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1998 New School for Social Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A nationwide series of struggles in Ayodhya, India were launched with destruction of Ayodhya's Muslim shrine by militants. The campaign behind the event began in the early 1980s. Hindu groups demanded destruction of the mosque and the erection of a temple to Ram, the epic hero of the Ramayana. Bharatiya Janata Party members laid a foundation for their temple just before the 1989 elections.

Ayodhya, India, long sheltered a sixteenth-century mosque, Babri Masjid, named for the first Mughal emperor, Babur. Ayodhya attracted worldwide attention on December 6, 1992, when Hindu militants ...

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