Ayodhya
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Security tight in India after court gives its Ayodhya verdictCities stay tense but calm as Allahabad high court shares land at Babri mosque between Muslims and Hindus
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Ramesh Rao: The verdict ordering the Ayodhya site to be split will hopefully put an end to the machinations that have taken place over decades
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Ayodhya: a history of violenceAyodhya in northern India has been a source of tension between Hindus and Muslims for decades
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Riazat ButtRiazat Butt: Eddie Long and the 'Elongate' scandal; atheists trump believers for religious knowledge; India to rule on Ayodhya controversy
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Court clears India's deputy PMOne Hindu leader has escaped conviction for the razing of Ayodhya mosque, but seven others face trial.
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Hindus face new challenge over razed mosqueA group of independent archaelogists and historians is to challenge a report by the archaeological survey of India that a Hindu temple existed at the holy city of Ayodhya beneath the ruins of a mosque destroyed in 1992.
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Amid the ruins, new verdict on holy siteYesterday's blasts took place only hours after the publication of a long-awaited report on Ayodhya - the temple town in north India, which has long divided Hindus and Muslims.
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Excavations to resolve temple rowA court in India yesterday ordered archaeologists to excavate the site of the demolished Ayodhya mosque to determine whether a Hindu temple ever existed there.
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Hardline Hindus demand temple on site of razed mosqueThousands of Hindu monks tried to march on India's parliament in New Delhi yesterday, demanding the right to build a temple at Ayodhya on the site of a razed mosque.
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Holy lies (part two)A holy site in the small Indian town of Ayodhya has become the focus of communal strife between Hindu nationalists and Muslims - hundreds have been killed in the past two months. At stake is the plan, backed by rabble-rousing politicians, to build a temple in place of a ruined mosque. Behind it, Pankaj Mishra uncovers a saga of falsified history, opportunistic abbots and a spurious legacy of the British Raj
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Holy liesA holy site in the small Indian town of Ayodhya has become the focus of communal strife between Hindu nationalists and Muslims - hundreds have been killed in the past two months. At stake is the plan, backed by rabble-rousing politicians, to build a temple in place of a ruined mosque. Behind it, Pankaj Mishra uncovers a saga of falsified history, opportunistic abbots and a spurious legacy of the British Raj.
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18,000 people arrested across India to head off renewed violence at AyodhyaIndia was last night bracing itself for more religious violence after the police yesterday arrested thousands of Hindu activists who had turned out to support the construction of a temple on a disputed site in the small northern town of Ayodhya.
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Ayodhya fear: Hindus to defy ban and pray at site of ruined mosqueIndia's ruling Hindu nationalist party faced embarrassment last night as a band of Hindu extremists said it would go ahead with a symbolic ceremony at a disputed site in Ayodhya, which could plunge India into further bloody communal rioting.
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