conceive of India as an explicitly Hindu nation, despite the fact that the country has a population of more than two hundred million Muslims. In 2019, several months after Modi’s reëlection, the Supreme Court of India—after a prolonged legal dispute—allowed for the construction of a Hindu temple on the site, which many Hindus believe is the birthplace of the Hindu deity Ram. (Many Hindu nationalists also claim that the mosque was built on the ruins of a previous temple to Ram.) But the dispute that was settled in favor of the Hindu party by the Supreme Court a couple of years ago was what is called a title suit. But, nonetheless, they say, For the following reasons, we think that it should all go to the Hindu party, and we’ll give the Muslims five acres elsewhere.

Source: The Hindu January 25, 2024 00:48 UTC