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* December 6 – Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjid – a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, India, which had been used as a temple since 1949, leading to widespread communal violence, including the Mumbai Riots, in all killing over 1500 people.
When the Babri Masjid was demolished on 6 December 1992, he described the event as the " greatest tragedy India has faced since the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi ".
The Babri Masjid was a mixture of the local influence and the Western Asian style and examples of this type of masjid are common in India.
" A whisper from the Babri Masjid Mihrab could be heard clearly at the other end, 200 feet m away and through the length and breadth of the central court " according to Graham Pickford, architect to Lord William Bentinck ( 1828 – 1833 ).
In the Babri Masjid a passive environmental control system comprised the high ceiling, domes, and six large grille windows.
Mir Baqshi built the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya naming it after Emperor Babur, after destroying a pre-existing temple of Rama at the site.
Remnants of demolished Hindu temples were used to build the Babri Masjid, Justice Dharam Veer Sharma of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has held and cited evidence provided by the Archeological Survey of India.
Muslims and other critics discount as politically motivated the archeological reports that are relied upon by Hindu groups like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ), Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) and Hindu Munnani to lay claim to the Babri Masjid site.
In a 2005 book former Intelligence Bureau ( IB ) Joint Director Maloy Krishna Dhar claimed that Babri Masjid demolition was planned 10 months in advance by top leaders of RSS, BJP and VHP and raised questions over the way the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, had handled the issue.
The BJP demanded that a temple dedicated to deity Rama be created at the site of the Babri Masjid where, according to Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ), a temple stood till Babur's invasion of India in 1528.
Advani embarked on a " Rath Yatra " to mobilize " karsevaks " to converge upon the Babri Masjid to offer prayers.
In 1992, two years after Advani ended his yatra, despite assurances given by the Kalyan Singh led BJP Government to the Supreme Court, the Babri Masjid was demolished by the " karsevaks " with alleged complicity of the Kalyan Singh government.
Elst later sent Goel a manuscript of his first book Ram Janmabhoomi Vs. Babri Masjid: A Case Study in Hindu Muslim Conflict.
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