Religious extremist everywhere are using the same false claim that their places of worships were buried beneath the Masjids as a lame excuse to demolish them

Online edition of India’s National Newspaper
Friday, July 14, 2000

Source: Plea to rewrite Taj history dismissed

everywhere are using the same false claim that their places of worships were buried beneath the Masjids as a lame excuse to demolish them.

Religious extremist

NEW DELHI, JULY 13. A self-proclaimed historian’s petition seeking to rewrite the history of the Mughal monument Taj Mahal, which figures among the seven wonders of the world, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court as “misconceived.”

“Somebody has a bee in his bonnet, hence this petition,” was the remark of a Division Bench comprising Mr. Justice S.P. Bharucha and Ms. Justice Ruma Pal, when the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) came up for hearing on Monday.

“We repeat this is an abuse of the process of the court,” Mr. Justice Bharucha reprimanded before counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Bijan Ghosh, withdrew the petition.

The petitioner, Mr. P.N. Oak, claimed that “the monument of world heritage, Tejomahalaya, commonly known as Taj Mahal, was constructed in 1155 A.D. by one Raja Parmar Dev’s Chief Minister, Salakshan.” He claimed that the court chronicle of Shahjahan said “the mansion known as Raja Mansingh‘s Manzil, at present owned by his grandson Jaisingh, was selected for the burial of Mumtaz and she was buried in it” and added that he had moved the court “to reestablish the truth and cultural heritage of our country.”- PTI

Taj Mahal From Wikipedia

In 2000, India’s Supreme Court dismissed P. N. Oak‘s petition to declare that a Hindu king built the Taj Mahal.^[51][54] Oak claimed that origins of the Taj, together with other historic structures in the country currently ascribed to Muslim sultans pre-date Muslim rule of India and thus, have a Hindu origin.^[55] A more poetic story relates that once a year, during the rainy season, a single drop of water falls on the cenotaph, as inspired by Rabindranath Tagore‘s description of the tomb as “one tear-drop…upon the cheek of time”.

 

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