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Two weeks ago, a court in Rajasthan issued notices to the government after admitting a petition claiming that the revered Ajmer Sharif dargah - a 13th-Century Sufi shrine that attracts thousands of visitors every day - stood over a Hindu temple.

The men belonged to rich, influential families in Ajmer, a city in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.

A week after her first birthday, a day out with her family in the city of Ajmer was covered by a local publication which wrote about how she "enjoyed tearing her five-year-old brother's text books and homework assignments".

The family was heading to Ajmer on a Muslim pilgrimage in western India, he said.

“We depend so much on their salaries — without them, we have nothing,” said Malik Ajmer Khan, 53, a village elder whose own son is among some 300 village men he said have joined the security forces in the 18-year war.