Pals in India and overseas wished to have a compilation of documentary proof of how Indian State and Supreme Courtroom facilitated the Hindutva challenge of obliterating a historic mosque at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The next description examines the Hindutva lies with irrefutable information which have been shamelessly neglected by the rulers and highest judiciary of India.

Lie 1: Babri mosque constructed after destroying Ram birthplace temple

The Hindutva gang claimed that the brand new Ram temple was constructed on an historic web site of Hindu worship; the Ram birthplace temple which was destroyed within the early sixteenth century (1528-29) throughout the reign of the primary Mughal emperor, Babar by one in every of his commanders, Mir Baqi. Archaeological proof proves the mosque had no foundations of its personal and was constructed upon a Hindu temple. They even recognized the precise native land of Ram; beneath the central dome (roughly measuring 150 cm x 150 cm) of the Babri Mosque.

This lie has been repeated by PM Modi many occasions since 2014 when he took over as PM of India, newest being at Ayodhya on November 25, 2025, when he acknowledged: “The injuries of centuries are therapeutic, the ache of centuries is discovering an finish at this time, the decision of centuries is attaining success at this time. Right now marks the ultimate providing of a yajna whose fireplace burned for 500 years.”

[PM’s speech during the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir Dhwajarohan Utsav, November 25, 2025, https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pms-speech-during-the-shri-ram-janmabhoomi-mandir-dhwajarohan-utsav/]

Reality 1: It is a brazen lie propagated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with no historic or authorized proof, nor any corroboration even within the ‘Hindu’ narratives of historical past. There isn’t any point out of the destruction of Ram Temple even within the writings of probably the most outstanding Ram worshiper so far, Goswami Tulsidas (1511-1623), who penned the epic Ramcharitmanas (Lake of the Deeds of Ram) within the Avadhi language in 1575-76. It was this work which made Ram the preferred God in Northern India. In keeping with the Hindutva model, Ram’s birthplace temple was destroyed throughout 1528-1529. It could be shocking certainly if the Ramcharitmanas, written nearly 48 years after the so-called destruction of Ram’s birthplace temple, didn’t point out such a momentous occasion. Does Hindutva gang imply to argue that Goswami Tulsidas was a coward!

For RSS, Aurobindo Ghosh, Swami Vivekananda, and Swami Dayanand Saraswati have been the saints who contributed immensely to the reason for Vedic faith and the expansion of the Hindu nation. None of those Vedic saints ever referred to this destruction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya by Mughal King Babar or his brokers in any of their writings.

Right now, Ayodhya is known as one of many oldest holiest locations for Hindus. It could be attention-grabbing to know that Adi Shankaracharya (788-820), who toured India preaching Vedas and refuting Buddhism and Jainism for greater than a decade, established 5 Peetams [main centers] at Badrinath within the North, Puri within the East, Dwarka within the West and Sringeri and Kanchi within the South for the revival of the Vedic faith however didn’t think about Ayodhya as one.

It’s true that historically, Hindus consider that Ram was born within the metropolis of Ayodhya, however the difficulty is whether or not he was born precisely beneath the central dome (roughly measuring 150 cm x 150 cm) of the Babri Mosque as is claimed now by Hindutva’s flag-bearers.

Furthermore, the Indian Supreme Courtroom, in its 1,045-page Ayodhya Judgment (November 9, 2019), nowhere within the Judgment agreed with the declare that the Babri Mosque was constructed after destroying any temple.

Indian Supreme Courtroom, within the mentioned judgment made two different observations demolishing the RSS declare on the Mosque. Firstly, it acknowledged:

“The exclusion of the Muslims from worship and possession passed off on the intervening evening between 22/23 December 1949 when the mosque was desecrated by the set up of Hindu idols. The ouster of the Muslims on that event was not by any lawful authority however by an act which was calculated to deprive them of their place of worship.” [Supreme Court Judgment dated November 9, 2019, pp. 921-22]

Secondly, on pages 913-14, it acknowledged that:

“On 6 December 1992, the construction of the mosque was introduced down and the mosque was destroyed. The destruction of the mosque passed off in breach of the order of established order and an assurance given to this Courtroom. The destruction of the mosque and the obliteration of the Islamic construction was an egregious violation of the rule of regulation.”

Nonetheless, Mom India should be aghast to seek out Indian Supreme Courtroom, regardless of all of the above findings, promoting itself to the legal Hindutva challenge of destroying a historic constructing which was a protected monument beneath Article 49 of Indian Structure. In actual fact, what Hindutva criminals couldn’t obtain on December 6, 1992, Supreme Courtroom of India obtained them on November 9, 2019.

It’s price mentioning right here that RSS—which initiated the bloody, violent marketing campaign to construct the Ram Temple on the finish of the Eighties, by no means superior this demand throughout the interval of its founding (1925) to the day of Independence. Even after Independence, it was solely in 1989 that the political appendage of the RSS, the BJP, started to give attention to this difficulty.

The views of two RSS luminaries who initiated the Ram Temple motion reveal the preposterousness of the declare that Ram himself was born beneath the dome:

• Rama Vilas Vedanti, a outstanding Hindu clergyman of the Ram Birthplace Belief (an RSS entrance), acknowledged, “We’ll construct a temple at Ramjanam Bhoomi even when Lord Rama says he was not born there” [Outlook, Delhi, 7 July 2003).
• L. K. Advani, who rode a chariot (Rath Yatra) as part of an aggressive Ram Temple campaign in 1990 said, “It did not matter whether the historical Rama was actually born at the spot in Ayodhya. What mattered was that Hindus believed that he was born there. Faith took precedence over history” [The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 20 July 2003.]

Lie 2: Ram Temple on the web site of the Babri Mosque was important to hunt ‘restorative justice’

In keeping with RSS the Ram Mandir has nice symbolic and emotional resonance for Hindus in modern occasions and that the trauma that this destruction introduced has been handed down by generations and continues to influence the psyche of Hindus and contributed traditionally and continues to contribute to Hindu-Muslim tensions in India to this present day.

Reality 2: In keeping with this logic, the rule by rulers with Muslim names in India was the Islamic rule of idol-breakers. This narrative of Muslim historical past developed solely at first of the nineteenth century is in absolute contradiction with historic information and even widespread sense. To know the lies behind this fabricated Medieval previous, one wants to look at the character of this ‘Muslim’ rule.

Regardless of the ‘Muslim’ rule of virtually one thousand years, roughly 75% of Indians didn’t convert to Islam, as was made clear by the primary Census held by the British in 1871-72 when even ceremonial ‘Muslim’ rule was over. Hindus and Sikhs constituted 73.5 % of the inhabitants, and Muslims numbered 21.5 % solely. [Memorandum on the Census Of British India of 1871-72: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office 1875, 16.]

In actual fact, this rule was additionally the rule of the Hindu Excessive Castes. In keeping with modern ‘Hindu’ narratives, Aurangzeb by no means confronted Shivaji within the battlefield; these have been his two Rajput commanders, Jay Singh I and Jai Singh II, who fought towards Shivaji on Aurangzeb’s behalf. Akbar personally by no means fought any battle towards Rana Pratap of Mewar; Man Singh, brother-in-law of Akbar fought all battles towards Rana. The Deewan Ala (prime minister) of each Shahjahan and Aurangzeb was Raghunath Bahadur, a Kayasth Hindu. [‘Fallacy of the Hindutva project’ May 4, 2022, Chennai, link: https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/fallacy-of-the-hindutva-project-aurangzeb-mughals-islamophobia/article38484103.ece]

It’s no one’s argument that Aurangzeb or many different ‘Muslim’ rulers weren’t spiritual bigots or tolerant. Aurangzeb didn’t spare his father, brothers, and lots of smaller ‘Muslim’ kingdoms of his occasions. There are additionally modern data that show that Aurangzeb donated lands, cash, and sources to many temples all through India. Anyone who has visited Delhi’s Pink Fort should have seen two temples; Jain Lal Mandir [Red Temple] and Gauri Shanker Temple, simply throughout the Pink Fort in the direction of Chandni Chowk facet. These temples have been constructed earlier than the rule of Aurangzeb and continued to operate throughout his time and later.

Lie 3: In keeping with RSS constructing of the Ram Temple was an necessary occasion for Hindus of all traditions

Reality 3: They didn’t clarify to the Nation why 4 Shankaracharyas of the Peetams (out of 5) established by Adi Shankaracharya boycotted the inauguration of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya. Probably the most revered dwelling Hindu saints of the Sanatan Dharm declared Ayodhya’s inauguration to be in contravention of Vedic scriptures, calling it Hinduism accomplished for petty electoral positive aspects.

It was unhappy to see RSS run roughshod over the range of Hinduism. In its try to show the homogenous character of Hindus, it turned a debate on the character of the Ayodhya inauguration into Hindus versus others. The founding father of Arya Samaj, Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824-83), is glorified by RSS as a pillar of the Hindu nation. However Swami was an ardent opponent of the Brahmanical rituals like Pran Pratishtha, placing life into a dull idol (in Ayodhya case by Prime Minister Modi) and didn’t mince phrases in decrying this very ritual. He acknowledged (in Satyarth Prakash or Gentle of Reality, chapter 11),

“The very fact of the matter is that the All-pervading Spirit [God] can neither come into an idol, nor, go away it. In case your mantras are efficacious which you can summon God, why are you able to not infuse life into your lifeless son by the pressure of the exact same mantras? Once more why are you able to not bide the soul depart from the physique of your enemy? There may be not a single verse within the Vedas to sanction the invocation of the Deity and vitalization of the idol, likewise, there may be nothing to point that it’s proper to invoke idols, to wash them, set up them in temples, and apply sandal paste to them.”

Lie 4: In keeping with the Hindutva narrative Ayodhya represents a 5 hundred years lengthy warfare between Hindus and Muslims of India

Those that defend demolition of Babri mosque argue that although typically offered as being a latest battle, the very fact is that this web site has an extended historical past of Hindus and Sikhs trying to reclaim it, relationship again to the early nineteenth century. Moreover, the battle has been ongoing whatever the political occasion in energy following India’s independence.

Reality 4: Ayodhya is offered as a spot of perennial warfare between Hindus and Muslims, and the central dome of the Babri Mosque claimed to be the precise place the place Ram was born, are trendy ‘constructs’ as we’ll see within the following.

There can’t be a shoddier lie than this that Ayodhya was a spot of perpetual warfare between Hindus towards Muslims. Throughout India’s Warfare of Independence 1857, Ayodhya was the place the place Maulvis and Mahants and unusual Hindus and Muslims stood united in rebelling towards the British rule and kissed the hangman’s noose collectively. Maulana Ameer Ali was a well-known Maulvi of Ayodhya, and when Ayodhya’s well-known Hanuman Garhi’s (Hanuman Temple) priest, Baba Ramcharan Das, took the lead in organizing the armed resistance to the British rule. Each of them have been captured and hanged collectively on the identical tree. In one other occasion of the fantastic unity of Hindus and Muslims towards the colonial rule at Ayodhya, Acchhan Khan and Shambhu Prasad Shukla led the military of Raja Devibaksh Singh within the space. As a result of treachery of Hindu and Muslim lackeys of the British, they have been captured and killed collectively. The British rulers hated this unity and created narratives of perennial Hindu-Muslim battle not solely in Ayodhya however the entire of India.

Iqbal a famend poet a lot maligned by the Hindutva ideologues whose poetry has been faraway from textbooks wrote a peerless poem in reward of Ram in 1908 titled “Imam-e-Hind”. For Iqbal, Ram was not merely a Hindu God however “Imam-e-Hind” (non secular chief of India). The primary two traces of the poem learn:

Hai Raam ke wajood pe Hindustaan ko naaz/

Ahl-e-Nazar samajhte hain us ko Imam-e-Hind

(India is happy with the existence of Ram

Non secular individuals think about him prelate of India).

The flag-bearers of Hindutva working additional time to undo a composite and all-inclusive India are utilizing the Sikh issue as a bluff to legitimize its unlawful challenge. Sikhs who don’t consider in idol worship of Ram or every other Hindu God/Goddesses; we’re instructed that on 28 November 1858, a Nihang Sikh [member of a warrior order within Sikhism] organized Pooja [worship] and havan [a Brahmanical ritual offering of grains, pure ghee and other such items to fire] within the Babri Mosque. It’s unbelievable for a Sikh to carry out Brahmanical rituals and would invite quick ex-communication. Why Hindus at the moment didn’t enter the Mosque is a thriller!

Aggrieved Muslims selected authorized recourse and never group mobilization, however judiciary betrayed.

Hindutva gang should perceive that Ram was by no means the reason for perpetual battle between Hindus and Muslims until RSS invented it as a handy device for spiritual polarization. Muslims of Ayodhya stopped going to Babri Mosque as soon as the idol of Ram Lalla (little one Ram) was smuggled into the Babri Mosque on the evening of twenty-two/23 December 1949 with the connivance of native senior officers. Native Muslims didn’t attempt to break into the usurped Mosque, and there was no bloodshed engineered by Muslims of Ayodhya who have been in substantial numbers in Faizabad, now rechristened as Ayodhya Dham regardless of the Indian Supreme Courtroom declaring that “the mosque was desecrated by the set up of Hindu idols.”

RSS and its associates as a substitute of being ashamed of the carnage have a good time the demolition on December 6 as Shauriya Divas, day of bravery. The criminals succeeded since 1990, RSS and its appendages had organized an aggressive marketing campaign for demolishing the Babri Mosque, focusing on Indian Muslims as Baber-zade/Haram-zade (youngsters of Babar/illegitimate youngsters). For greater than two years, Hindus in India and overseas have been requested to return to Ayodhya to tear down the mosque as kar-sevaks.

Babri mosque demolition was not Hindu-Muslim struggle however RSS versus Indian state

Did Muslims name for counter-mobilization to save lots of the mosque or attain the positioning on December 6 to confront the Hindutva goons? By no means! In actual fact, they trusted the RSS to honor the dedication made to the then-Indian Prime Minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao and the Indian Supreme Courtroom that its appendages and cadres wouldn’t hurt the mosque. RSS reneged on all commitments shamelessly. Indian State and judiciary remained silent spectators. How overtly Indian Muslims have been cheated can be evident by the truth that Rao promised to rebuild Babri Mosque at its unique place twice (as soon as in Parliament and second time whereas addressing the nation from Pink Fort on August 15, 1993), which have been reneged too!

[Shamsul Islam is a retired Professor of Delhi University. Courtesy: Countercurrents.org, an India-based news, views and analysis website, that describes itself as non-partisan and taking “the Side of the People!” It is edited by Binu Mathew.]