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When the post-Partition turmoil enveloped Delhi, Gandhi went on a six-day fast (January 12–18, 1948) two weeks before his assassination. Abul Kalam Azad went to Gandhi to ascertain Gandhi's terms for breaking the fast, and then Azad addressed a Delhi crowd of about three hundred thousand people to communicate those terms. Without exception they had to do with Muslim needs: the evacuation of mosques by non-Muslims....
Joseph Tieffenthaler (1710-85) was the first to suggest the Babri mosque stood near a site associated with Rama's birthplace. His account was translated from the French by Johann Barnoulli in 1788. Tieffenthaler stated that Aurangzeb, last of the six Mughal emperors, 'got demolished the fortress called Ramcot, and erected on the same place a Mahometan temple'.