'SC judgements contributed to Hindu-isation of India'

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Ram Mandir: Supreme Court Judgements Have Contributed To ‘Hindu-isation’ of India, Says Advocate Rajeev Dhavan

On 5 August, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will fulfil its longstanding promise of building a temple devoted to the Hindu god Ram on the spot where a mob had demolished a 16 century mosque in Ayodhya.

This closes a chapter of the political Hindutva-isation of India that starts with L.K. Advani’s Rath Yatra in 1990 and the demolition of the Babri Masjid two years later, and ended with the sweeping electoral successes of Narendra Modi in 2014 and 2019, 12 years after the Gujarat riots.

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In this interview, Supreme Court advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who fought for the Sunni Waqf Board and other Muslim parties in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title suit, said that judgments going back to sixties have given a nod to the idea that India was innately Hindu and that is now fructifying into an affirmation of “muscular nationalism.”