"The above are cases where the attempts to suppress evidence have failed. It is quite probable that other attempts have succeeded. There may well be documents containing pertinent information, particularly about the site’s history during the Sultanate period (1206-1525), which have escaped the notice of Prof. Harsh Narain (the only scholar of Persian and Arabic in the VHP team) because they had been removed in time from the places where they could normally be found. Such documents would mostly be in Persian and available only in the libraries of Muslim institutions. In some of these, Prof. Harsh Narain has effectively been denied access as soon as his involvement in the Ayodhya argument became known. How many pieces of pertinent material have been concealed, removed, destroyed or altered is anybody’s guess."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Elst, Koenraad Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ayodhya_dispute
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ayodhya dispute
92 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ayodhya dispute →
Related Quotes
"It has become a fashion in some elite Indian circles to bash Hinduism or issues related to it. It has also been taboo…"
"I say that the Muslims do not have the slightest right to complain about the desecration of one mosque. From 1000 A.D…"
"There is no state today, certainly not in India, to protect Hindu interest in the international arena, to raise voice…"
"On the very same day the first brick of the Ram Shila foundation was being laid at Ayodhya, the Berliners were removi…"
"The British concoction hypothesis is not only untenable. It is so far off the mark, so totally out of tune with the k…"
"The pogroms in Pakistan and Bangladesh after the demolition of the Babri Masjid left 50,000 Hindus homeless in Bangla…"
"Without exaggeration, the BJP's Ayodhya campaign was the single biggest public relations disaster in world history."
"The debate has not genuinely altered the old consensus, but it has been an interesting case-study in manipulation by …"
"Future historians will include the no-temple argument of the 1990s as a remarkable case study in their surveys of aca…"
"The Muslims, in my opinion, should show magnanimity and [make] a noble gesture of gifting away the mosque."