Today in class we continued watching The Slum Dog Millionaire.
The Babri Masjid, was a mosque in Ayodhya, a city in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh, on Ramkot Hil. It was destroyed in 1992 when a political rally developed into a riot involving 150,000 people, despite a commitment to the Indian Supreme Court by the rally organizers that the mosque would not be harmed. More than 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in ensuing riots in many major Indian cities including Mumbai and Delhi.
The mosque was constructed in 1527 by order of Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India. Mir Baki, after seizing the Hindu structure from priests, named it Babri Masjid. Before the 1940s, the Mosque was called Masjid-Janmasthan, acknowledging the site as the birthplace of the Hindu deity, Lord Rama. Mir Baki, after seizing the Hindu structure from priests, named it Barbi Masjid.
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