Word: ayodhya
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...home, however, the BJP government is showing none of the same sensitivity. Perhaps the most divisive issue between Indian Muslims and Hindus is the disputed holy site of Ayodhya, in the north. When a Hindu mob tore down the ancient mosque at Ayodhya during a BJP rally in 1992, it sparked bloody riots across the country and Bombay's first bombing campaign?a deadly day of strikes in March 1993 by the city's Muslim underworld that killed 257 people. Last week, on the same day as the latest Bombay blasts, the government-run Archeological Survey of India (ASI) lent...
...Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Even more bold, Vajpayee has drafted a moderate Hindu leader to come up with a compromise to one of the longest-running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta ran the front-page headline hard as diamond, soft as flowers over a picture of a bare-chested Vajpayee depicted as Ram, a Hindu god. One of Vajpayee's detractors on the Hindu right admits, "It is accepted...
...fight with the hard-liners is far from won, and nobody expects quick solutions about Pakistan or Ayodhya. Moreover, Vajpayee's health is still a concern: after visiting China, the Prime Minister canceled all his engagements and went immediately into eye surgery. But if he can sustain his dominance into a general election (due by the end of 2004), Vajpayee will need his health to not only win another term but also to stay on the treadmill of Indian politics long enough to complete a very ambitious agenda...
...mobilize a people's movement across the country which will take over thousands of mosques that were built over demolished Hindu temples." PRAVEEN TOGAIDA, leader of the fundamentalist World Hindu Forum, vowing drastic action if the Indian government blocks reconstruction of a temple on a long-disputed site in Ayodhya...
Hindus and Muslims continue to fight and die for a 1.1-hectare piece of real estate in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya. This struggle has gone on for centuries, with both sides claiming the site as sacred ground. But now an Indian court is trying to combine archaeology with technology to settle the dispute. Following a court order, government archaeologists last week began probing the dusty parcel with a ground-penetrating-radar magnometer capable of detecting a buried foundation and other subsurface ruins. Hindus hope the machine will bolster their claim that an ancient temple marking the birthplace...