Brian K. Smith bases his account of the evidence debate wholly on an article from the Communist fortnightly Frontline, giving the game away by relaying some of the consensual canards circulating among secularist polemicists, for example that ASI director-general B.B. Lal had “found absolutely no evidence of any pre-existing temple at the site” (in fact, Lal had found the bases of a pillared building which either may or may not have been a Hindu temple, and later came out in support of the more recent and more decisive archaeological findings which Smith’s source prematurely, and till today
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