Why India’s BJP wants to rekindle the Babri mosque dispute on December 16, 2018Twenty-six years ago, Hindu nationalists destroyed the Babri Masjid in the northern city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state, sparking some of the bloodiest communal violence in India’s recent history, which killed some 2,000 people. The perpetrators claimed Mughal Emperor Babur had erected the mosque in place of a “magnificent” Hindu temple dedicated to the […]