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Ayodhya, The Finale
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'''''Ayodhya, the Finale - Science versus Secularism the Excavations Debate''''' is a book by self-described 'Hindu revivalist' [[Koenraad Elst]] published in [[2003]] by [[Voice of India]]. 

This book is Elst's latest book on the [[Ayodhya debate]], and is an intervention in favour of the controversial report by the [[Archaelogical Survey of India]] on the history of [[Ram Janmabhoomi]]. He writes that he is surprised that there is a controversy at all, when the matter "could be decided by Scientists".  The book compares the Ayodhya debate to [[Galileo]], whose scientific findings were also opposed by many people. He writes that ''"when dogmatic ideologues are giving scientists the kind of treatment which the experts of the Archaeological Survey of Indian have been receiving from the “eminent historians”, and assorted [[Babri Masjid]] lobbyists, it is time to stand up and be counted. I for one want to be counted among those who defend the freedom of research and the scientific method..."''

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[[Category:2003 books]]
[[Category:Books by Koenraad Elst]]
[[Category:Ayodhya]]