Word: babri
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Among the priorities the B.J.P. has relinquished: the construction of a new shrine to Ram at the site of the Babri mosque; repeal of marriage and divorce laws "pandering" to Muslims; doing away with favored status for Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state...
...uprising that unsettled all of India. On Dec. 6, 1992, thousands of Hindu zealots stormed a 464-year-old Muslim house of worship in Uttar Pradesh state called the Babri mosque and razed it, many of them ripping at the stones and mortar with their bare hands. Subsequent Hindu-Muslim rioting across the country left more than 1,000 dead. When the mosque was destroyed--according to legend, it had been built on the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram--many feared that if the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party who egged on the fanatics ever came...
...English. The expanded version of a novella-length work first issued in 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...
Hindus have repeatedly demanded that the Indian government build a Hindu temple on the site. Hundreds of Muslims, protesting the Babri destruction, have been killed in riots in the last month...
...state government is still deciding what action to take to prevent future religiously motivated violence, Heptulla said. But she said the Babri destruction will not set a precedent for attacks on other mosques or temples, since it was the result of a onetime "fundamentalist conflict...