Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society is a book by Koenraad Elst published in 1991 by Voice of India. The book is about the Ayodhya debate and also discusses Indian politics and communalism. Elst opines that reaching national integration "requires dropping the anti-Hindu separatist doctrines that have largely been created for the purposes of several imperialisms, and are now being kept afloat with a lot of distortive intellectual and propagandistic effort."
The book attempts to examine the polemics between 'communalists' and 'secularists' in India. He also writes about Indian secularism and Communalism, and alleges "that a clear majority of the riots are started by Muslims". In another chapter, the author discusses the banning of books like Ram Swarup's Understanding Islam through Hadis. In the 14th chapter he discusses the concept of "Hindu Fascism".
Table of Contents:-
Introduction
Chapter 1. Summary of the Historical Question
1.1 Before the Masjid, the Mandir
1.2 Methodological Errors
1.3 Who Built Babar's Mosque?
Chapter 2. Belief and History
2.1 The Belief in Ram
2.2 Jerusalem and Ayodhya
CHapter 3. Righting the Wrongs of History
3.1 The Bricks or the Truth
3.2. Kashi and Mathura
3.3. A Gesture, Not a Compensation
3.4. Enactment of Status-Quo
3.5. International Standards
Chapter 4. Ram Janmabhoomi and the Courts
4.1 A Non-Mosque
4.2 Disputed Competence of the Judiciary
Chapter 5. Ram Janmabhoomi Politics
5.1 V.P. Singh and Ayodhya
5.2 Mulayam's Emergency Rule and Kar Seva
5.3 Reactions in Neighbouring Countries
Chapter 6. Communalists and Their Communities
6.1 Hindu Society
6.2 The Muslim Community
Chapter 7. Press Reporting on Ayodhya
7.1 Reporting on Kar Seva
7.2. Foreign Press Reporting
Chapter 8. The Misuse of History
8.1 Caught in the Act of Distorting History
8.2 Some Recent Myths
8.3 Disregarding the Evidence
8.4 Historians Arguing Ad Hominem
8.5 Broadcasting Distortions
8.6 "They Were All Fanatics"
8.7 Up Against Undeserved Authority
Chapter 9. Secularism and India's Integrity
9.1 Separatism and Anti-Hinduism
9.2 Secularist-Separatist Nexus
9.3 Victory Through More Concessions ?
Chapter 10. Secularism as It Is
10.1. Its Definition
10.2 Hindu Secularism
10.3. Marxism and Secularism
10.4. Real Secularism Through Real Religion
10.5 Secularism and Chaturvarnya
10.6. Sarva Dharma Samabhava
10.7. Dharma
Chapter 11. The Rriots
11.1 Reporting vs. Comment
11.2 Inspiring and Starting Riots
11.3. Received Wisdom on Riots
11.4 Muslims and the Police
11.5. Who Starts ?
11.6. Riot Strategy
11.7. A Case Study in Riot Comment
11.8. Hindu Riots
11.9. Riots in Muslim Countries
Chapter 12. Book Banning
12.1. Banning All That Hurts
12.2 Banning Criticism of Islam
12.3 Secularism and Book-Banning
12.4. Banning Religion From School
Chapter 13. Facing the Truth the Only Solution
13.1 Facing the Past
13.2. Islam and Nazism
13.3. Seeing the Bright Side
13.4. Tolerance in Islam
13.5 How to Say It
Chapter 14. Hindu Fascism
14.1. Hinduism, Hitler's Mother?
14.2. Hindutva and the "Evils of Hindu Society"
14.3. Arya and Swastika
14.4. "They Killed the Mahatma"
14.5. Hindu Nationalism
14.6. Majorityism
14.7 Targeting a Minority
14.8 Authoritarianism
14.9. Fascism in India : Where Is It ?
14.10.Who Reads Hitler Anyway ?
Chapter 15. The Hindu Movement
15.1 Symbolic Issues
15.2 The Need for a Hindu Programme
15.3 Pride in Hinduism
15.4 From Ayodhya to Indraprastha
Glossary
Appendix 1. Girilal Jain on Hindu Rashtra
Limits of the Hindu Rashtra
The Harbinger of a New Order
This Is Hindu India
Appendix 2. Ram Swarup on Indian Secularism
Notes