{"id":49775,"date":"2022-10-30T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/thousands-of-mosques-targeted-as-hindu-nationalists-try-to-rewrite-indias-history"},"modified":"2022-10-30T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T05:00:18","slug":"thousands-of-mosques-targeted-as-hindu-nationalists-try-to-rewrite-indias-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49775","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of mosques targeted as Hindu nationalists try to rewrite India\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsi Jama Masjid, an 800-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh, is the latest flashpoint in a dispute that could eventually turn violent<\/p>\n<p>In a small, darkened office in Budaun, where dusty legal books line the walls, two lawyers have fallen into a squabble. VP Singh and his taller associate BP Singh \u2013 no relation \u2013 are discussing Shamsi Jama Masjid, the mosque that has stood in this small town in Uttar Pradesh for 800 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawyers, this grand white-domed mosque, one of the largest and oldest in India, is not a mosque at all. \u201cNo no, this is a Hindu temple,\u201d asserted BP Singh. \u201cIt\u2019s a very holy place for Hindus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/thousands-of-mosques-targeted-as-hindu-nationalists-try-to-rewrite-indias-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsi Jama Masjid, an 800-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh, is the latest flashpoint in a dispute that could eventually turn violentIn a small, darkened office in Budaun, where dusty legal books line the walls, two lawyers have fallen into a squabble&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,447,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49776,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775\/revisions\/49776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}