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The best single source for
primary archaeological data is the Hindi volume Ayodhya ka Itihas evam
Puratattva— Rigveda kal se ab tak (‘History and Archaeology of Ayodhya—
From the Time of the Rigveda to the Present’) by Thakur Prasad Varma
and Swarajya Prakash Gupta. It is published by Bharatiya Itihasa evam Samskrit
Parishad and DK Printworld, both of New Delhi. For a discussion of the evidence in the context of distortion of history and the motives, see Profiles in Deception: Ayodhya and the Dead Sea Scrolls, published by Voice of India, New Delhi. For a comprehensive discussion of evidence mainly from Islamic sources, see the book by Harsh Narain given below. The Ayodhya Reference Manual brought out by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad is an excellent summary of the evidence and the controversy.
The three volumes by Koenraad
Elst are also recommended for their discussion of the historical background and
the light they shed on the ideological battle.
The two-volume work Hindu Temples, What Happened to Them? By Sita
Ram Goel (New Delhi: Voice of India) is a comprehensive account of the Islamic
record of temple destructions. Others are listed in the Bibliography. Bibliography
The Ayodhya Reference: Supreme
Court Judgement and Commentaries. 1995. New Delhi:Voice of India. Ayodhya
and the Future of India. 1993. Edited by Jitendra Bajaj. Madras: Centre for
Policy Studies.
Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur,
Prince and Emperor. 1996. Edited, translated and annotated by Wheeler M.
Thacktson. New York and London: Oxford University Press. Elst, Koenraad. 1990. Ram Janmabhoomi vs. Babri Masjid. New Delhi: Voice of India.
Elst, Koenraad. 1991. Ayodhya and
After: Issues before Hindu Society. 1991. New Delhi: Voice of India.
Elst, Koenraad. 1993. Negationism
in India: Concealing the Record of Islam. 2nd enlarged edition. New Delhi:
Voice of India.
Goel, Sita Ram. 1991. Hindu
Temples: What Happened to Them. Volume I (A Preliminary Survey). New Delhi:
Voice of India.
Goel, Sita Ram. 1991. Hindu
Temples: What Happened to Them. Volume II (The Islamic Evidence). New Delhi:
Voice of India. Goel, Sita Ram. 1993. Islam vis-a-vis Hindu Temples. New Delhi: Voice of India.
Harsh Narain. 1993. The
Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources. Delhi: Penman
Publishers.
History versus Casuistry:
Evidence of the Ramajanmabhoomi Mandir presented by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to
the Government of India in December-January 1990-91. New Delhi: Voice of
India.
Rajaram, N.S. 1995. Secularism,
the New Mask of Fundamentalism: Religious Subversion of Secular Affairs. New
Delhi: Voice of India.
Rajaram, N.S. (1998). A
Hindu View of the World: Essays in the Intellectual Kshatriya Tradition. New
Delhi: Voice of India.
Rajaram, N.S. (2000). Profiles
in Deception: Ayodhya and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New
Delhi: Voice of India |