संवाद # 149: Dr Meenakshi Jain on 500 years struggle of Hindus for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

Dr MeenakshiJain is a historian interested in cultural and religious developments in ancient and medieval India. Her recent publications include Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura (2021); Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019); The Battle for Rama: Case of the Temple at Ayodhya (2017); Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse (2016); and Rama and Ayodhya (2013).

In 2020, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Her latest book 'The Hindus of Hindustan: A Civilisational Journey' is out. You can order your copy here: https://www.amazon.in/HINDUS-HINDUSTA...

0:00 Promo
1:52 How India has changed in 10 years
5:14 Ideology: destroy temples, build mosques
7:57 Bhakts never gave up on their temples
11:02 Teachings of great Hindu saints
13:24 How bhakts started reclaiming Ram Janmasthan
17:20 No evidence of Muslim presence at Janmasthan
18:21 Babar built 3 mosques
20:01 Evidence of Bhakts at Janmasthan
24:06 Ram Bhakt Rani, Krishna bhakt Raja
26:40 Nihangs at Janmasthan
30:12 British era evidence in favor of Ram Mandir
33:36 The Great Hindu Patience
36:54 British punish Bhakts for demolishing Babri
41:43 Waqf commissioner report
43:05 PM Nehru Vs K. K. Nayar
46:46 Rising Hindu Nationalism
49:42 Eminent Historians as Traitors
58:35 The Case for Mathura
1:00:20 Masjid party forged historical documents
1:02:36 Only problem in Mathura