AS years pass, the illustrious historian, Dwijendra Narayan Jha is becoming a man of few words. Jha was a part of a group of independent historians who studied historical and archaeological evidence of the Babri Masjid before its demolition in 1992, and rejected claims that there was a Hindu temple underneath the Babri Masjid. It has a section called “Ayodhya …
Senior advocate PS Narasimha argued his rejoinder post lunch. According to the shloka, the ultimate goal in religion is to attain moksha, and the Shloka "tells us that moksha is attained by visiting the site which is the birthplace of Lord Ram". Asserting the importance of the site, the senior advocate submitted that Lord Ram's birthplace is an important place …
Day six of the Ayodhya case in the Supreme Court began with the counsel for the deity Ram Lalla Virajman making submissions based on the accounts of various historians, travellers, and scholars, including English merchant William Finch and Joseph Tiefenthaler, among others. Counsel for Ram Lalla Virajman cites Skanda Purana and works of European historians, says birthplace is deity in …