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ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: Aleph Book Company] Hardcover Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord is the first comprehensive biography of a sleepy city in northern India, which has been a place of reverence for many faiths for millennia, but has also been a place of violence, bloodshed and ill-will. Ayodhya lodged itself permanently in the national consciousness with the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992. The destruction of the mosque was the climax of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement that has been at the heart of Indian politics for a quarter century since the BJP first campaigned on the promise of building a Ram temple at the site of the mosque. The demolition was followed by large-scale riots that killed thousands of people and permanently communalized the polity of the country. In the first section of the book, the author tells the complex story of a city holy to many faiths-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Jainism. Through a comparative analysis of the various versions of the Ramayana in which it features, Valay Singh goes back almost 3,300 years in time to when Ayodhya is first mentioned. He then traces its history showing its transformation from being an insignificant outpost to a place sought out by kings, fakirs, renouncers and reformers. He looks at the propagation of an aggressive Hindu cultural and religious consciousness in the city that was exacerbated during the period in which the East India Company became a military power in n ...
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: Aleph Book Company] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. 1.1 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: Aleph Book Company] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 1.1 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]
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ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD] Hardcover KlappentextrnrnIn one sense, the history of Ayodhya is a microcosm of the history of the north Indian heartland. In another sense, it is a history of the evolution of Vaishnavism in the Hindu consciousness. In a third sense, it stands for the fo. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD] Hardcover KlappentextrnrnIn one sense, the history of Ayodhya is a microcosm of the history of the north Indian heartland. In another sense, it is a history of the evolution of Vaishnavism in the Hindu consciousness. In a third sense, it stands for the fo. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: Rupa and Co] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD Jan 2017] Hardcover Neuware - In one sense, the history of Ayodhya is a microcosm of the history of the north Indian heartland. In another sense, it is a history of the evolution of Vaishnavism in the Hindu consciousness. In a third sense, it stands for the formation and propagation of an aggressive Hindu cultural and religious consciousness that can be traced all the way back to the advent of the East India Company as a military power in north India in the eighteenth century. Over the last two decades or so, a singular fixa [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: Rupa and Co] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]
ISBN10: 9388292243, ISBN13: 9789388292245, [publisher: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD Jan 2017] Hardcover Neuware - In one sense, the history of Ayodhya is a microcosm of the history of the north Indian heartland. In another sense, it is a history of the evolution of Vaishnavism in the Hindu consciousness. In a third sense, it stands for the formation and propagation of an aggressive Hindu cultural and religious consciousness that can be traced all the way back to the advent of the East India Company as a military power in north India in the eighteenth century. Over the last two decades or so, a singular fixa [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
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