Modi’s temple grandstanding

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Hindu temple in the once-sleepy city of Ayodhya on Monday. The BBC’s Soutik Biswas and The Caravan’s Hartosh Singh Bal explain how it’s the culmination of his decades-long push to remake India as a Hindu state. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prime Minister Norendra Modi presided over a spectacle in Northern India yesterday.
0:06.4	He opened a massive Hindu temple on the site of what used to be a mosque.
0:12.3	It's controversial because it replaces a 16th century mosque
0:16.7	that once stood there and it is one of India's most controversial religious
0:22.0	sides.
0:22.5	What happened was that in 1992,
0:25.9	Hindu mobs tore down what was called the Barbary mosque,
0:29.2	claiming that it was built by Muslim invaders
0:31.7	on the ruins of a temple. Now this incident sparked off
0:36.0	nationwide religious rioting which took nearly 2,000 lives.
0:41.0	How a centuries long fight over sacred land was settled and how it wasn't.
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