Is Modi’s India Safe for Muslims?

Hindu nationalism is on the rise in the country with the world’s second-largest Muslim population.

James Traub is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy. Follow him on Twitter: @JamesTraub1.

BY JAMES TRAUB-June 23-2015

This past March, a group of community activists in Aurangabad, an industrial city  in central India, convened a morcha — a demonstration — to protest a series of blatantly anti-Muslim measures taken by the state government in Mumbai, which is controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The morcha operated according to a well-worn protocol: A colorful tent was erected in a vacant lot across the street from the office of the district commissioner, and 250 or so Muslim men sat in the shade while a succession of speakers — a very long succession of speakers — denounced the state government and called for civil disobedience, in the spirit of Gandhi’s famed Salt March against the British, should their demands not be met.

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