The city of ................. is regarded by Hindus to be the birthplace of the God-king Rama and is regarded as one of India's most sacred and religious sites.

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• The .............. conflict is a dispute over sacred space between the two largest religious communities in South Asia: Hindus and Muslims.
• On 6 December ................., the BJP and other supporting organizations organized a religious ceremony to symbolically start the building of a temple at the sacred site.
• Under Muslim League’s leader, ..................., the party put forth its 'two nation theory' that Hindus and Muslims were really two nations and that the Muslim majority areas of India should be partitioned to form a separate state called Pakistan.
• In 1528, after the Mughal invasion, a mosque was built by Mughal general ................, who reportedly destroyed a pre- existing temple of Rama at the site, and named it after Emperor Babur.
• In June 1984, the Indian Army led by the Sikh General Kuldip Singh Brar forcibly entered the Harimandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) to overpower the armed militants and the religious leader ..............
• Before Indian independence, ..............state was a princely state within the territory of British India, comprised of three linguistic regions: the Telugu-speaking Telengana area (including the capital city, Hyderabad), the Marathi-speaking Marathwada area, and a small Kannada-speaking area.
• The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silent valley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.
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• One of Indira Gandhi’s first acts on 26th June 1975 was to remove her mild-mannered and democratically inclined Information minister ................ and replace him with Vidya Charan Shukla, who she thought would better serve her Goebbelsian design.”
• ................ can be said to be one of the greatest international influences on Nehru, but Gandhi's ideals of Satyagraha also influenced him to a great degree.