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n 1990, at a time when India was becoming rapidly more polarized, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), LK Advani, led a religious-political march across the country. The ‘Ram Rath Yatra’ took place in support of demands for a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Ram to be built on the site of the Babri mosque in the temple

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