The Fourth Annual Report of the Minorities� Commission submitted to the President of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs on April 19, 1983, carries an account of a dispute over the J�mi� Masjid at Sidhpur in the Mehsana District of Gujarat.
In order to understand fully the meaning of what was exposed at Sidhpur and the strife it caused, we have to know what the Rudramah�laya was, how it came to be built at Sidhpur and how a J�mi� Masjid was raised on its site and from its debris.
The protection provided by Siddhar�ja JayasiMha to Muslims and their places of worship was continued by his successors in Gujarat. The population of Muslims as well as their places of worship continued to multiply in several cities of Gujarat ....