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Islam didn’t originate in India but reached it in various ways—Before nation-states existed
The Gyanvapi debate and its close association with Aurangzeb points towards a much bigger question—the foreign origin of Islam and the alien nature of Muslim heritage. In an October 2022 article, Pratap Bhanu Mehta has made a very persuasive argument in …