Legal disputes over religious places of worship deepen communal polarization, as shown by the recent survey order against a 16th-century mosque in Sambhal, which triggered violence killing four persons.Even so, almost a dozen of such cases are pending before different courts in India, disputing the character of religious places, despite the protection offered by the Places of Worship. In a …
The Archaeological Survey of India told the Madhya Pradesh high court that the Bhojshala temple-Kamal Maula masjid in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district was built from the remains of earlier temples and the existing mosque at the site came up centuries later, adding the disputed structure to a string of similar conflicts roiling India for decades. “Based on scientific investigations, survey …
A team of the Archaeological Survey of India on Friday began a scientific survey of Bhojshala, a protected 11th-century monument in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, as the Supreme Court refused to interfere with a high court order on the exercise at the contentious site. Security personnel stand guard outside Bhojshala/Kamal Maula Mosque complex after a team of the Archaeological Survey …
BHOPAL: The Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday directed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a scientific survey of the centuries old Bhojshala Temple-cum-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district of western MP. While the ASI protected complex has long been considered by Hindus as the 11th century Bhojshala Saraswati Temple, Muslims claim it to be …
In the Gyanvapi Mosque row, the lawyers representing Hindu petitioners said they found ‘Shivling’ in the pond during the court-monitored survey of the complex. An influential figure, Maulana Hakim Sayid Abdul Hai, in his book cited six examples where mosques were built on every site of Hindu temples by Indian-Muslim rulers from the 12th to 17th Century. Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple: …
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued notices to the Centre, state and Archaeological Survey of India over the disputed site of the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula mosque based on a petition that claims that Hindus should be given exclusive rights to pray there Even as the country widely discussed the cases of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi and the Taj Mahal …