KK Muhammad, a retired Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) senior official, who was posted in Old Goa in his younger days (around the 1980s, he liked speaking to the Press then too) is at the centre of a debate over the mosque-temple dispute at Ayodhya, where Prime Minister Modi recently unveiled a temple over the site of the demolished mosque, in a series of developments spanning many years which could change (and has changed) Indian politics drastically.
The Times of India has quoted KK Muhammad as saying, "In the first excavation, we found Hindu symbols in mosque": https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/in-first-excavation-we-found-hindu-symbols-in-mosque-kk-muhammad/articleshow/107073231.cms But others have challenged his arguments. This is the view of historian Dr R Sharma: <https://twitter.com/tishasaroyan> Dr. Ruchika Sharma <https://twitter.com/tishasaroyan> @tishasaroyan <https://twitter.com/tishasaroyan> Lets bust KK Muhammad's propaganda, shall we? If you don't want to read the whole thread, here's the video (https://youtu.be/h_khJRTDXr0 <https://t.co/RqDdG0jUXt>) 1) KK Mohd (from now on KKM) was involved in the 1976 excavation carried out by BB Lal, he was only a *student* in this excavation, as he himself says in screenshot 2 2) 1976 excavation has no published report till date, we can't verify KKM's gobbledygook. However, a summary of the excavation was published in Indian Archaeology Review, screenshot 3 has what it says. Doesn't mention any temple at all. 3) The court ordered excavation was 2003 excavation, this was the only excavation that was carried out directly underneath the Mosque, since the mosque by then was fully demolished by absolute criminals 4) KKM was not part of the 2003 excavation 5) 2003 excavation had 2 observers Prof Varma and Prof Menon, who flagged major problems in the excavation, including creation of pillar bases by the ASI, here's their paper https://epw.in/journal/2010/5 0/verdict-ayodhya-special-issues/was-there-temple-under-babri-masjid-reading … <https://t.co/uPgIMfoCh9> 6) The observers conclude in their paper that what was found was a mosque and not a temple. The mosque was dated 12th-13th c. (screenshot 4) 7) So RW dodos have so far been believing a person who wasn't present in the court ordered excavation of 2003. 8) RW dodos have been calling it KKM' *findings* when they weren't even his findings, excavation was led by BB Lal and no report was ever published. 9) Questions that journalists should've asked KK: Where is the 1976 excavation report? Why does the summary of the report published in IAR 1976 make no mention of any temple at all? You were only a student at the 1976 excavation, how reliable are your observations, since there is no written report? Till journalists don't ask tough questions to dodos kaise chalega?? See the thread (with screenshots) here: https://twitter.com/tishasaroyan/status/1750033008084853044 Online he gets credit for having " - Discovered the first Christian Chapel of North India built by Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatehpur_Sikri>. He has also been awarded a Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, by the BJP government in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._K._Muhammed FN -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/3b59d5ec-b239-4e0e-998a-108a594a9cfdn%40googlegroups.com.
