HINDUS NEED GYANVAPI: HOW HOLY VARANASI TEMPLES WERE DESECRATED BY MUSLIMS IN THE NAME OF THE MOSQUE
Varanasi or Benaras has from time-immemorial been the Mecca of the Indian sub-continent, the keeper of the Hindu identity and a repository of Hindu culture. It has also been central to the reckoning of Hindu politics as also pivotal to any attempt to reckon with the Indian civilisation and its greatness.
Often maligned in Western as well as Left-liberal historiography as the locus of Hindu civilization and society’s ‘dark underbelly’— Brahmanical hegemony to Sati and thagi —Varanasi has endured not just the onslaughts of historical constructions, but is also the locus of modern history’s first tryst with Hindu-Muslim communitarian strife along faultlines that still contested.
- 15 Sep 2022
- WerIndia
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