In the 20th century, the Hindutva political movement sought to make Hinduism a central principle in government and public life, to the exclusion of Muslim influence.
This movement reached a high point in the destruction of the Babri Mosque of Ayodhya in 1991 by Hindu activists. 
The activists claimed that the mosque had been built on the site of an earlier Hindu temple demolished by the Muslim Mughal ruler in the 16th century, and that this site was the ancient birthplace of the Hindu god Rāma.
In modern Hindu activism, Rāma is important as the model of an ideal leader, who rules according to Hindu principles (Rām rājya). This is the justification for setting up a Hindu rāṣṭra (state) governed by Hindu principles.