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Nope, pre-1989 it was a local issue alone with no widespread belief universally about it being the sole Ram Janmabhoomi. There were other temples that claimed the same.
Saar the other name for babri was Masjid-i-Janmasthan. Yes JANMASTHAN. Some rival akhadas used to claim, but for the people it was the site of Babri and South was the only place that this issue spread to after 1989. North and West were aware of this issue even before 1989. And they held three-quarters of Hindu population. I cannot agree that this was a local issue except by local you include more than 60% of the Hindus in that.
I believe differently. I think economic liberalisation has changed India in as much that people have now seen the downside of the "appeasement" to Muslims ( actually only to the Ulema) because Muslims have disproportionately ( because of lack of education) been unable to join in the benefits that accrued to other Indians. So the old story of appeasement no longer has the same currency as before.
With the advent of internet people have on the contrary become more vocal about the appeasement policies. Nowadays people might not go out on the street as much as those days, but that does not by any stretch of imagination mean people have moved on. Infact contrary to western society, the liberalization and the emergence of middle class has only strenghthened the right wing idealogy and not weakened it.
One look at the mosques there will teach you differently. The violence of destruction is clearly evident in the structure itself.
In mathura even there is a board kept by ASI saying that a temple was demolished. Still it doesnt matter because the presence of a temple tempers people's feeling that they have not lost everything and they atleast have a temple in the nearby plot.