Indian court rules in favor of Hindus in dispute at heart of tension
Saturday that a disputed piece of land in the town of Ayodhya be given to Hindus, paving the way for the building of a Hindu temple at the site where a mosque once stood for Muslim worshippers. The verdict ends a decades-old legal battle – for now – that has been at the heart of much Hindu-Muslim enmity and violence and still forms the core of Indian religious identity politics. In 1992, more than 2,000 people were killed in Hindu-Muslim violence after Hindu hardliners destroyed the 16th-century Babri mosque in the town, which is located in ...
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