Narendra Modi’s government has steadily infringed on the rights of India’s 205 million Muslims
Robert Rotberg is the founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s program on intrastate conflict, a former senior fellow at CIGI and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation.is by far the globe’s most populous democracy. But, like so many other electoral near-autocracies, the country has also been steadily attacking its own democratic underpinnings.
This emphasis on Hindu supremacy has successfully aroused northern India, whose inhabitants are more numerous , but poorer on average, than those living in the southern states.India is a vast nation of 1.4 billion people representing numerous ethnicities and speaking multiple languages, but the federation of 28 states and eight union territories has been held together by the common use of the English language and a democratic ethos nurtured by its founders. Mr.
Ever since, India’s government has moved incrementally to strengthen Mr. Modi, to increase the reign of the BJP, and to marginalize anyone opposing him. Criticism has not been welcomed.. Destroying a mosque in Ayodhya because it allegedly occupied the site of a pre-Mughal Hindu temple has been one of Mr. Modi’s great projects. Last month, Mr.
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