Story of the Hindu struggle for Ram Janmabhoomi
See the history of Hindu struggle for the Ram Janbhoomi temple below: “Alexander Cunningham, in the Lucknow Gazetteer speaks about the carnage that Mir Banki, a governor under Babur, unleashed on Ayodhya. Over 1.74 lakh Hindus who had gathered to protect the Shriram temple site were ruthlessly slaughtered; their bodies piled high and wide. Mir Banki’s canons fired into the temple and reduced it to rubble. Hamilton writes in the Barabanki Gazetteer ‘Jalalshah used stones from Lahore coloured with the blood of Hindus in the construction of the mosque. Kajal Abbas Musa Ashikan Kalandarsahib a zealous Muslim fakir was the ‘inspiration’ for the destruction of the temple and the construction of a grand mosque in its place. He had plans to turn Ayodhya into a Mecca of the east. In his memoirs, Babur recounts the destruction of the Ram Mandir (in Ayodhya) on the orders of Abbas Musa Ashikan Kalandar and how the materials from the temple were reused to build a mosque in its place. Th...