ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the validity of the view that a temple marking the birthplace of Rama was built in the eleventh century and existed at the Baburi [Babri] Masjid [mosque] site in Ayodhya, until it was demolished in the sixteenth century to erect the Masjid in its place. It examines several types of evidence: textual, architectural and archaeological, historical and epigraphic.
