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December 19, 2010

EPW special issue on The Ayodhya Verdict

The Economic and Political Weekly, 11 December 2010

THE VERDICT ON AYODHYA

Dissecting the Ayodhya Judgment
by Anupam Gupta

Judged by the opinion of the two judges who constituted the real, as distinguished from the ostensible, majority of the three-member special full bench of the Allahabad High Court, the 30 September 2010 verdict in the Babri masjid title suits qualifi [Full Article]

Secularism and the Indian Judiciary
by P A Sebastian

The judgment of the Allahabad High Court of 30 September 2010 in the Babri masjid-Ram janmabhoomi case has put the final seal on the acts of installation of statues and demolition of the mosque
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Idols in Law
by Gautam Patel

The findings and orders of the special full bench of the Allahabad High Court on the successful Bhagwan Sri Ram suit and the dismissed Wakf Board suit demand close examination
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Issues of Faith
by Kumkum Roy

For those who have chosen to explore the implications of the Allahabad High Court’s verdict on the Ram janmabhoomi-Babri masjid dispute, one of the issues that have been particularly troubling is the question of faith
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Was There a Temple under the Babri Masjid? Reading the Archaeological ‘Evidence’
by Supriya Varma , Jaya Menon

As witnesses to a major part of the excavations carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India at the Ram janmabhoomi-Babri masjid site in Ayodhya in 2003, the authors detail the many irregularities and outdated methods they observed
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