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Ayodhya

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A·yodh·ya also A·jodh·ya  (-ydy)
A former village of northern India on the Ghaghara River, now a joint municipality with Faizabad, near Lucknow. Long associated with Hindu legend, it is a pilgrimage center and one of the seven sites sacred to Hindus.


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Dube offers a sympathetic review and critique of the trajectory of "Subaltern Studies" as an intellectual project, followed by a brief discussion of contestations over the history of Ayodhya (site of the Babri Masjid demolition of 1992) and another of recent controversies over the representation of Hinduism in the Western academy.
The mosque, in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya, was reduced to rubble in 1992, poisoning relations between India's Hindus and Muslims and leading to rioting and the murder of hundreds of Muslims.
``We are celebrating the time when Lord Rama, a reincarnation of God, came back to his home of Ayodhya after defeating a demon.
 
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