The 1990s witnessed two landmark political movements, Mandal and Kamandal. The Mandal movement was for social justice while Kamandal (or Ram Temple) movement cried foul at the religious injustice. The Ram Temple agitators, despite their rightwing religious coating, seemed to put forward one logical argument: Their movement is to correct a historical wrong; Muslim invaders and rulers destroyed many Hindu temples, including that built in Ram’s birthplace; what is wrong in reclaiming those in a modern secular state?