In India, the twain of faith and polity never met. It was not within royal purview to supervise the compliance of religious obligations by the citize… - Meenakshi Jain

“No evidence whatsoever has been proffered of continued Muslim occupation Babri Masjid, while the uninterrupted presence of Hindu devotees has been attested by several sources. Babri Masjid finds no mention in the revenue records of the Nawabi and British periods, nor was any Waqf ever created for its upkeep. No Muslim filed an FIR when the image of Sri Rama was placed under the central dome on 23rd December 1949.” (p.144)

The memory of Mahakaleshwar had remained undimmed over time; the present structure was built almost five centuries after the destruction by Iltutmish. p 142

So complete was the destruction of Banaras that not a single pre-eighteenth century temple survived. p 124