The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources (An Old and Rare Book)

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This work sums up my search and research for historical sources, particularly Muslim, on the existence and desecration of the Rama Janmabhumi temple and its replacement with the Babari mosque at Ayodhya. That way it has emerged as a more or less full account of the sources shedding light on the issue. I have also taken due notice of the case sought to be made out against our theses by Muslim and 'secular Hindu historians and scholars. My research on the subject was occasioned in response to the challenge thrown time and again by Sayyid Shahabuddin for anyone to produce evidence of the alleged existence and demolition of the Rama temple. In February 1990, I published the result of my research in certain dailies. My article on the subject in the Indian Express for February 26, 1990, aroused a controversy. Subsequently, I hunted out more evidence in favour of my theses, the most significant one issuing from the pen of a descendant of Babar Aurangzib's grand-daughter, to be pracise-, which should have clinched the issue for good. The core of the case for Rama-Janmabhumi is as under: It is futile to discuss the historicity of Rama and identity and antiquity of Ayodhya in the context of the present controversy. Let historians fight it out at some other forum. What needs to be clearly understood in the present context is the patent fact that Hindus can no longer view with equanimity the mosque held by them to be standing on the debris of a temple called Rama Janmabhumi temple, Rama temple, or Sita Rasoï temple destroyed by Babar.