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Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self
Creating a Nationality The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self Author:Ashis Nandy, Shikha Trivedy, Shail Mayaram, Achyut Yagnik The destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December 1992 was a watershed in the politics of independent India. It was also an apocalyptic turning-point for community life at Ayodhya, and for the highly interdependent cultural lives of Hindus and Muslims living there. This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that... more » led up to and followed the destruction of the mosque.« less