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Jan 16, 2022 · 16 Jan 2022. A genocide of Muslims in India could be about to take place, an expert said to have predicted the massacre of the Tutsi in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994, has warned ...
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e. There have been several instances of religious violence against Muslims since the partition of India in 1947, frequently in the form of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindu nationalist mobs that form a pattern of sporadic sectarian violence between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Over 10,000 people have been killed in Hindu-Muslim communal ...
Oct 4, 2021 · Two new books on his assassination in 1948 were launched. In Karnataka, meanwhile, a 25-year-old Muslim man was found beheaded for his affair with a Hindu girl, allegedly by a local Hindu ...
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- Debasish Roy Chowdhury
- Introduction
- Who Makes Up India’s Muslim population?
- How Did India’s Partition Influence Hindu-Muslim Relations?
- How Did Religion Factor Into India’s Constitution?
- How Did Hindu Nationalists Come to Power?
- What Types of Discrimination Do India’s Muslims face?
- What Controversial Actions Has The Modi Government Taken with Regard to Muslims?
- What Have Been The Largest Outbursts of Violence?
- Who Wants to Preserve India’s Secularism?
- How Is The World Responding to The Rising Discrimination in India?
India is home to some two hundred million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India’s independence, Muslims have often faced discrimination, prejudice, and violence, despite constitutional protections. Experts say anti-Muslim sentiments have heightened under the leadership ...
India is a country of religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity. Its Muslims, most of whom identify as Sunni, account for about 15 percentof the population, by far the largest minority group. Hindus make up about 80 percent of the population. Similar to the Hindu population, the country’s Muslim communities are diverse, with differences in caste,...
Some of the animus between India’s Hindus and Muslims can be traced to the British colonial era schisms and the subsequent Partition of British India in 1947, scholars say. Economically devastated after World War II, the British lacked the resources to maintain their empire and moved to leave the subcontinent. In the years before Partition, the Ind...
The country’s seventy-five-year-old constitutionenshrines egalitarian principles, including social equality and nondiscrimination. The word “secular” was added to the preamble in 1976, but the constitution does not explicitly require the separation of religion and government. Leaders of the Congress party who fought for independence advocated for a...
Hindu nationalism dates back to colonial-era writings of Indians such as author and politician V. D. Savarkar in his book Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?. Hindu nationalists believe Hindus are the “true sons of the soil” because their holy lands are in India, whereas the Christian and Muslim holy lands are outside it. They generally champion policies int...
Muslims have experienced discrimination in areas including employment, education, and housing[PDF]. Many encounter barriers to achieving political power and wealth, and lack access to health care and basic services. Moreover, they often struggle to secure justice after suffering discrimination, despite constitutional protections. Over the last two ...
In December 2019, the parliament passed and Modi signed the Citizenship Amendment Act, which allows for the fast-tracking of citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Critics say the law is discriminatorybecause it excludes Muslims and applies a religious criteria for the ...
Babri Masjid conflict, 1992.Disputes over the mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya have turned deadly in recent decades. Hindus claim a general from the Muslim Mughal empire built the mosque on the birthplace of the Hindu deity Ram during the sixteenth century. In 1992, Hindu militants destroyed the mosque. An estimated three thousand people, mos...
Experts say that although anti-Muslim sentiment is rising among Hindus, it is wrong to assume all Hindus and all people who voted for the BJP are anti-Muslim. Both Muslims and Hindus, including activists, legal scholars, and students, have fought against the BJP’s moves to undermine India’s secularism. For example, after the Citizenship Amendment A...
Many foreign governments and international bodies have condemned the BJP’s discrimination of Muslims, citing actions in Kashmir, the Citizenship Amendment Act, and anti-Muslim rhetoric as particular concerns. The UN human rights office described the Citizenship Amendment Act as “fundamentally discriminatory.” Iran, Kuwait, and Qatar were among the ...
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Feb 16, 2022 · India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, rejected appraisals of India’s democratic decline, redirecting criticism at the U.S. and attempts by President Trump and his allies to ...
May 19, 2022 · In India, roughly 200 million Muslims – just over 14% of the population – are defending their right to live. ... Just one example of the targeted persecution of Muslims is a controversial ...
Aug 12, 2022 · In the northern state of Uttarakhand, Hindu religious leaders allied to the ruling BJP party, recently called for a “cleanliness drive” against Muslims. Sadhvi Annapurna, national president of ...
