Ram Temple

Violence erupted early this week in the town of Sambhal when a court-monitored team visited a 16th-century mosque to see if a Hindu temple existed there previously.

It has enacted legislation to implement its vision and goals for a more centralized, tough-on-terrorism, family-oriented, and proudly Hindu state.

He has set a precedent for Indian PMs to perform religious functions, thereby effectively rendering non-Hindus unelectable for that position.

For many Hindus, the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is not just a Ram temple, but the Ram temple, located at the site where their deity Ram was born.

The temple town of Ayodhya is decorated with Hindu images, flags, and buntings in anticipation of the homecoming of the Hindu deity Ram.

Kings, irrespective of their religious faith, adopted “the highly selective method” of isolating "for desecration only those temples that were identified with enemy kings.”

Their decisions seem bold, given that the BJP’s rise has prompted many of them earlier to adopt strategies seeking to appease the Hindu majority.

The polls are a referendum on the state’s saffron-robed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a poster figure for the Hindu right-wing.

India’s prime minister attended the ground-breaking for a controversial temple built on the site of the demolished 16th century Babri mosque.

The groundbreaking on the controversial temple is a testament to the Hindu nationalist movement’s total dominance of society and politics in India.