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  2. Times of India Directory and Yearbook 1954-55, p. 1122.

  3. BJP's White Paper on Ayodhya and the Rama Temple Movement (New Delhi:
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  4. BJP advertisements, India Today, 15 May 1991, pp. 48-49.

  5. See K. L. Mahendra, Defeat the RSS Fascist Designs (New Delhi: Communist
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  6. BJP's White Paper, pp. 7,15.

  7. Inderjit Badhwar and Prabhu Chawla, "Moment of Truth," India Today, 30
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  8. "PM lashes out at BJP," Hindu, 4 November 1989.

  9. "Congress (I) Manifesto Highlights Unity Theme," Hindu, 7 November



  10. Shahnaz Anklesaria Aiyar, "The VHP: Flexing Its Muscles," India Today, 30
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  11. Jayendra Saraswati, "Rama Rajya," in Glory of Rama (10th National Geeta
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  12. H. V. Seshadri, "The Village That Reminds Us of Ramarajya," Organiser, 8
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  13. H. V. Seshadri, "A Karma Yogi in Action," Organiser, 1 March 1987, p. 6.

  14. S.N.M. Abdi, "Aspiring for Ram Rajya," Illustrated Weekly of India, 9-15
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  15. "Living in Fear," Illustrated Weekly of India, 9-15 January 1993, p. 31.

  16. Dilip Awasthi, "Nawabganj Muslims: Running Scared," India Today, 15
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  17. "Living in Fear," pp. 31-32.

  18. Abdi, "Aspiring for Ram Rajya," pp. 30-31.

  19. Vishwapriya Iyengar, "Too Bad to Be True," Illustrated Weekly of India, 9-15
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  20. Basu et al., Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags, pp. 72,4.

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  22. Ibid., p. 35.

  23. Romila Thapar, A History of India, vol. 1 (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968),
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  24. Ibid., pp. 278-79.

  25. Ibid., pp. 278,279-80.

  26. Arun Shourie et al., Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them (A Preliminary
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  27. Iqbal A. Ansari, The Muslim Situation in India (New Delhi: Sterling Publish-
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  28. See David L. Haberman, Journey through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter
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