The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c3.6

c3.6

The temple party are supposed to establish that the Bābarī mosque was built after destroying the temple, whereas the mosque party are supposed to establish that the mosque was built on vacant land. The former have marshalled a lot of positive evidence, based on British government and Congress government records; European travelogues; Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu sources; as well as archaeological and art-historical findings. But the mosque party have not yet been able to produce a single positive evidence in its favour. The utmost that is sought to be done by them is to dismiss on one pretext or another in a rather negationistic fashion whatever evidence the temple party brings before them, as also to make much of non-reference to the demolition in Tulasīdāsa etc., knowing full well as historians that negative evidence by itself is seldom a passport to truth.