“Ayodhya’s 1934 clash: The untold story of en masse fines on Hindu families after cow slaughter triggered Babri Mosque attack”, Swarajyamag, December 19, 2023:
“Sheetla Prasad Pandey, 49, carries with him a trove of stories around the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute from the era preceding India’s partition.
These are tales passed down by his grandfather.
Pandey resides in Ayodhya’s Panji Tola mohalla, which is also the residence of late Hashim Ansari, the key litigant in the dispute who in 1961 filed a suit in the civil court of Faizabad against “illegal encroachment of the masjid by Hindu side.”
The Supreme Court verdict in 2019 upheld the Hindu claim of ownership of the site, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Lord Ram, noting that the mosque was not built on vacant land and there was a structure beneath it that was “not of Islamic origin…..”
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