Babri Masjid: Nazis meddling with archeological evidence. (P.S. Sridhara Murthy, Advocate, Bangalore)  

In my book, Rama, Ramayana and Babar (Dalit Sahitya Academy), I had said that the nearest point of truth that we can reach with all the available material on the question of Babri Masjid is that the followers of the Vedic religion might have destroyed the temple of a non-Vedic religion (Jainism or Buddhism) and that the black pillars taken from the ruins may have been used in the Babri Masjid. Muslim Journals did not make any efforts to inform their readers about the historical evidence presented in this book – as well as in the book of Sher Singh and Mrs. Surinder Kaur, “Babar, The Secular Emperor” – while the Hindu Nazi weekly, Organizer, as well as their daily, Indian Express, kept on feeding its readers with the lie that Babar demolished a Rama temple and built a mosque in its site at Ayodhya. Now an eminent historian, Prof. R.S. Sharma, has dismissed the views of Dr. S.P. Gupta and Prof. B.B. Lal of the much – advertised archaeological project on Ramayana, as “absolutely without any foundation”. (Times of India, Dee 6, 1990). It is significant that he has stated that the responsible officials of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) were reluctant to provide the published material from the ASI Library as they were apprehensive of the vindictive attitude of Nazi sympathizers in the ASI establishment. This statement speaks volumes about the absence of objectivity so essential for the study of history. Nazis have infiltrated into several such vital govt. depts. with the sole object of brain-washing the people by its well-known technique of suppressing the facts and propagating lies. The Times of India story makes it very clear that archaeological evidence, far from speaking of a Rama temple does not suggest the existence of even a Vaishnava temple. He has also said that no temple dedicated to Rama was ever built up to the 12th century and no Rama temple at Ayodhya was ever built till the 16th century. It indirectly accuses Dr. S.P. Gupta who is styling himself as an archaeologist and has been of late struggling to build up archaeological evidence in support of the Nazi case against the Babri Masjid, of total lack of objectivity. Both Prof. R.S. Sharma and R.C. Singh, former Director of the U.P. Archaeology Dept., have said that there are neither inscriptional, archaeological nor epigraphical evidence to show that there was a Rama temple at the site of Babri Masjid.