The Madhya Pradesh High Court’s judgment on the Bhojshala complex in Dhar is an overdue acknowledgement of civilisational fact. For decades India’s so-called ‘secular’ establishment perfected the peculiar art of denying the visible. In order to appease minority sentiments, a historically apocryphal narrative of ‘syncretism’ was imposed despite the evidence of desctruction on Hindu temples and educational institutes chronicled by the Muslim court annalists themselves. This res