Ayodhya, The Finale
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Ayodhya, the Finale - Science versus Secularism the Excavations Debate is a book by Koenraad Elst published in 2003. ISBN 81-85990-77-8
This book is Elst's latest book on the Ayodhya debate. He writes that he is surprised that there is a controversy at all, when the matter could be decided by Scientists. But the scientific investigations were opposed by the anti-Temple side, and when scientific results were made public, they were opposed by the Marxist historians. The book compares the Ayodhya debate to Galileo, whose scientific findings were also opposed by many people. He writes that "when dogmatic ideologues are giving scientists the kind of treatment which the experts of the Archaeological Survey of Indian have been receiving from the “eminent historians”, and assorted Babri Masjid lobbyists, it is time to stand up and be counted. I for one want to be counted among those who defend the freedom of research and the scientific method..."
The book points out at the ASI report, and the denial of its findings by Marxist historians.
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Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991), Negationism in India (1992), Psychology of Prophetism (1993), Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate (1999), Who is a Hindu? (2001), The Saffron Swastika - The Notion of Hindu Fascism (2001), Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001), Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002), Ayodhya, The Finale (2003), India's Only Communalist (2005) |
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