“Thanks to the growing politicization of the aristocracy of letters, the unwary are being fed on the misconception that the tales of tyranny over the Hindus under the Sultans and Mughuls are all fabrications of the … British… in pursuance of the much-maligned British policy of divide-and-rule.”

—  Harsh Narain

The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources (1993)

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