Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple
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Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple is a book by Koenraad Elst that was published in 2002.
This book is one of Koenraad Elst's studies on the Ayodhya debate and on communalism in India. He has written several books on the Ayodhya debate and on the Ram Janmabhoomi controversy. Koenraad Elst presents the view that the Babri Mosque was built on an ancient Hindu temple, the Ram Janmabhoomi. His books on Ayodhya explore the political, historical and archaeological aspects of this debate. He concludes on this debate that "Future historians will include the no-temple argument of the 1990s as a remarkable case study in their surveys of academic fraud and politicized scholarship."
The book does not only treat the Ayodhya debate. Elst also writes in detail about claims that the ancient Hindus were iconoclasts, a view that was propagated by Romila Thapar, Richard Eaton and others.
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- Foreword.
- 1. The Ayodhya debate: focus on the "no temple" evidence.
- 2. Ashoka and Pushyamitra, iconoclasts?
- 3. The Bodh Gaya temple controversy.
- 4. Harsha of Kashmir, a Hindu iconoclast?
- 5. Vandalism sanctified by scripture.
- 6. The details about "Hindu iconoclasm".
- 7. Why did Aurangzeb demolish the Kashi Vishvanath temple?
- 8. From Ayodhya to Nazareth.
- 9. Ayodhya and the Supreme Court.
- 10. Mohammed Habib’s history-rewriting.
- 11. The Ayodhya evidence debate.
- 12. About the Hindu critique of monotheism.
- 13. Postscript: a lasting solution.
- Bibliography.
- Index.
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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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