From Raja Bhoj’s famed seat of learning to a modern legal flashpoint, the Bhojshala dispute reflects India’s enduring struggle over its heritage and cultural identity. AI generated image The Madhya Pradesh High Court’s recent ruling declaring the Bhojshala to be a temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati has brought the millennium-old heritage site back in focus. Located in Dhar, often described as the cultural capital of the ancient and medieval province of Malwa, the Bhojsha

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