Past perfect, present tense: The recent protests against the appointment of a Muslim professor in Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan department at BHU, therefore, seem to be the new way of the admirers of Manusmriti, the Vedic text which denigrates lower classes, to wallop the “other”.
Ayodhya was always a religious centre, but after Nawab Sadat Ali Khan laid the foundation of the Awadh dynasty in 1722, his court in Faizabad became a centre of cultural mingling.
