Word: ayodhya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bhatia calls the BJP's role in the Ayodhya mosque incident a "symbolic repudiation of syncretistic Indian history." One cannot judge 5,000 years of Hindu history by one exception, and this complex event must be understood in context...
...weapons state and taking a tougher line against separatists in Kashmir. Most Indians remember that it was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and that it was Hindu nationalists who touched off the worst anti-Muslim rioting in decades when they demolished a 16th century mosque at Ayodhya in 1992. There is real fear that a B.J.P. government could shatter India's secular tradition and tear its society apart...
...early 1993, Shame tells the story of the Dutta family -- father Sudhamoy, mother Kironmoyee, son Suranjan and daughter Nilanjana -- Bangladeshi Hindus caught up in a wave of Muslim reprisals shortly after the December 1992 destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu zealots in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya...
...forums for subcontinental understanding through dialogue. I am planning to have about four writers a year, broad-minded people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh. I want to set up forums and debates and try to defuse these awful things which are happening in India at the moment after the Ayodhya issue. It has to be bridged because we are harming nobody but ourselves. I have already asked Anita and Shashi Tharoor and from Pakistan, Sara Suleri. They have agreed, so we will start these sessions soon. They will be held in Houston because that's where I want to place myself...
Thus did the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao finally show resolve in dealing with India's spreading sectarian violence. But the B.J.P. also scored, displaying a measure of discipline lost in last December's riotous destruction of Ayodhya's historic Muslim mosque. Convinced it can ride to power on a Hindu wave, the B.J.P. plans to continue its protest campaign to force national elections...