The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c7.2

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¹ Montgomery Martin, British Surveyor, *History, Antiquities, Topography and Statistics of Eastern India*, (a chiselled and revised version of No. 3 *infra*), Vol. II, 1838, pp. 335-336. Martin says, ‘The bigot by whom the temples were destroyed, is said to have erected mosques on the situations of the most remarkable temples; but the mosque at Ayodhya... is ascertained by an inscription on its walls... to have been built by Babur....’ He also speaks of the pillars of black stone in the mosque, which according to him were taken from some Hindu building.