For more than a decade, right-wing Hindu groups inIndiahave conjured the specter of a “love jihad” among Muslim men: a campaign to court Hindu women with the intention of converting them to Islam…

Since the mid-twentieth century, India and China have had a complex relationship. China and India have engaged in three major military conflicts, which took place along a disputed border along the…

InDecember 2019, as protests against a controversial new citizenship law sweptIndia, three incidents in different parts of the country revealed the state’s growing powers of surveillance. InDelhi,…

In the last two months, widespread protests over a controversial new citizenship law inIndiahave raised the prospect of a constitutional crisis. Those protesting the law—which for the first time…

The 1947 partition of India made it evident that sectarianism was going to plague the subcontinent for the foreseeable future. Fast forward 70 years later and the emergence of Hindu nationalism in…

When India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, ran for the top job five years ago, he campaigned as the country’s best hope for economic reform. The government he ran against, led by the Congress party,…

Asia’s two largest and most diverse democracies held national elections in recent weeks, and religious tolerance was on the ballot in both. Voters, however, delivered diametrically opposed verdicts. …

In August, former Indian Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayeedied at the age of 93. India’s first prime minister from theBharatiya Janata Party(BJP), Vajpayee is often held up as an exemplar of…