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Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 1907919902
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis A narrowing space: Violence and discrimination against India's religious minorities by :
Download or read book A narrowing space: Violence and discrimination against India's religious minorities written by and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious minorities have long been the target of a range of different forms of persecution, such as hate crimes, threats, attacks on places of worship, and forced conversion. Nevertheless, in recent years there has been rising hostility against India’s religious minorities, particularly since the current right-wing BJP government promoting Hindu nationalism took power at the national level after its election in May 2014. In particular, communal violence disproportionately affects India’s religious minorities – especially Muslims, but also Christians and Sikhs. While often instrumentalized for political gains, communal violence draws on and exacerbates a climate of entrenched discrimination against India’s religious minorities, with far-reaching social, economic, cultural and political dimensions. Such violence is frequently met with impunity and in certain instances direct complicity from state actors, ranging from inciting violence through hate speech to refusing to properly investigate communal incidents after they have occurred. The aim of this short briefing is to contextualise these recent developments, drawing attention to the ways communal violence is linked to wider discrimination against religious minorities, and infringes upon their enjoyment of minority rights.