The excavation of a disputed holy site in India has produced no evidence of a Hindu temple, according to an interim report.
Independent archaeologists have been employed to try to determine whether the site at Ayodhya in northern Uttar Pradesh state belongs to Hindus or Muslims.
Archaeologists have spent the past three months tunnelling and digging and scraping away at earth beneath the site of a former mosque at Ayodhya.
In an interim report, the Archaeological Survey of India says it has not found any evidence of ruins of a Hindu temple.
The site in the northern Indian town has been at the centre of an angry dispute between Hindus and Muslims for decades.
In 1992 Hindu fanatics tore down the 16th century Babri mosque, claiming that it had been built on the exact spot where the Hindu God Ram had been born.
This resulted in riots in which about 3,000 people were killed.
More archaeological research is to be done at the site, but the interim results will come as a big disappointment to hardline Hindu groups in India.
It will also be a setback to the BJP party which leads the ruling coalition government in India.
Ayodhya has been seen as a potential vote-winner nationally and in state elections in Uttar Pradesh.
It will be interesting to see the reaction of the hindu hard-liners to this news, as it represents a severe embarassment for them.
Will they apologise to India’s Muslims, be gracious, admit they are wrong, and finance the rebulding of the mosque they destroyed?
Or (more likely) will they declare that it is a centuries old Muslim consipracy to remove all traces of the site’s hindu past, and launch a new round of killing and raping Muslims?
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Or (more likely) will they declare that it is a centuries old Muslim consipracy to remove all traces of the site's hindu past, and launch a new round of killing and raping Muslims?
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They will declare science as useless tool, and/or archaeologists were bribed/threatened by Muslim fanatics.
If true this is quite a major development, and shames the entire Hinduvta movement in India. I wonder if all those who excused the demolition of Babri Masjid and failed to condemn the subsequent pogrom of Muslims across India, are prepared to admit they were wrong?
It is an interim report and I hope and pray final report to be more in favor of Muslims, insha-Allah. Archaeologists should continue their work and not threatened by fanatic hindutva.
i dont think it is a relgious issue it is a vote bank outlived its worth.
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Is this why most of the newspapers in India were ordered not to give this headline about a detainee saying he had direct orders from Advani to carry out the destruction of the mosque?
Ram Charit Manas was composed during Akabar period and the author Tulsi Das spent a greater part of his life at Ayodhya. Tulsi Das has not mentioned of Ram Temple, which was supposed to be destroyed just thirty or forty years back (as per pro Ram Temple organization’ theory.)
In fact RSS people repeated this lie so many times that they themselves became victim of this lie and believed in the existence of a temple, otherwise they might have opposed the digging.
Digging was opposed by Muslim sector, as there was no Muslim monitor.
Some of RSS people had already announced the appearance of some idols, and are now saying that digging has no meaning and Ram Temple is a question of faith and requires no proofs.
RSS must give up this issue now.
Many of ‘gupshup’ Ram Temple entertainers will not touch this topic for some time. Personally I am disappointed, (as I am also one of them.)
Is this why most of the newspapers in India were ordered not to give this headline about a detainee saying he had direct orders from Advani to carry out the destruction of the mosque?
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there is a case pending it can be used whenever it is useful.
Spock, your question is wrong. It is possible in Pakistan that newspapers can be ordered to follow some instructions.
If one detainee blames someone after ten years, it is not news for headlines. By the way you missed Sahara or Zee…. this detainee was given enough coverage.
(By the way I am not siding Adwani.)
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people should demand more public toilets to be built than temples.
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It must be painful for you to acknowledge the truth after spending such a long time trying to make excuses and justifications for the demolition of Babri Masjid, and the subsequesnt pogrom of thousands of Muslims across India. Here read again, and see if you can try to face upto the reality:-
The excavation of a disputed holy site in India has produced **no* evidence of a Hindu temple,*
It must be painful for you to acknowledge the truth after spending such a long time trying to make excuses and justifications for the demolition of Babri Masjid, and the subsequesnt pogrom of thousands of Muslims across India. Here read again, and see if you can try to face upto the reality:-
The excavation of a disputed holy site in India has produced **no* evidence of a Hindu temple,*
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temples and mosques are ok but there is other real neeeds.
you cant sit in a corner read quron or pray in temples and expect
god will bring everything to you.