In another article ‘The Muslim Dilemma’ (IE, 19 October 1992), Engineer had stated: ‘By adopting an aggressive posture on the Shah Banu judgement the Muslim leadership alienated even the progressive, secular Hindus who are quite sympathetic to the Muslim cause… One can say that the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid controversy is a fall-out of the Shah Banu agitation.’ (Kashyap 1993; p.23)
