Rama’s Ayodhya: Creating and Contesting Hindu Identity

In 1992, a Hindu mob destroyed an early sixteenth-century mosque, known as the Babri Masjid, in the north Indian city of Ayodhya through an act of violence that, the attackers said, honored the Hindu deity Rama. The Babri Masjid’s demolition has drawn robust scholarly attention, predominantly focuse...

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Main Author: Truschke, Audrey (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 2025, Volume: 68, Issue: 7, Pages: 783-822
Further subjects:B Hindutva
B Mughal
B Ramayana
B Religious Nationalism
B Rama
B Violence
B Ayodhya
B Mythology
B Hindus
B Babur
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