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Innholdsfortegnelse
Violence Due to Religious Conflicts Are on the Rise in India
India Needs Cooperation, Not Conflicts
Is India a True Democracy?
To Sum Up This Essay, India as We Know It Is in Dire Straits.
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We’re all different. We practice different religions, we find different things interesting, and everyone has personal beliefs that really matters to them.

Societies that can handle differences can thrive with creativity, exchange of ideas and progress. But what happens when we get too selfish? When we stop respecting what others believe in, and think our own beliefs are the only right ones?

In this essay, we will be looking at how conflict appears between religions in India, how this makes a threatening environment for India’s citizens, how it might affect poverty and climate changes and be destructive to India’s diversity and democracy.

In 1947 British India was split in two parts. There had been lots of conflicts between the Muslims and Hindus, so they each got their own country.

The Muslim part is what we know as Pakistan, and India became mostly Hindu. After the country was divided, India has been thought of as a country with lots of diversity, and as a secular state.

Even though there have been some conflicts over the years, Hindus, Muslims and other minority groups has been living in a fairly peaceful coexistence.

But in 2014, when Narendra Modi won the election, everything changed. Narendra Modi is the leader of the Hindu nationalist party “Bharatiya Janata Party”, and he and his political allies have made changes that benefit the Hindus.

An example is the “Citizenship Amendment Act”. In December 2019, the Indian government passed through a law which makes it easier for people from Bangladesh, Pakistan or Afghanistan to get an Indian citizenship, as long as they fit into certain criteria.

The most controversial criteria is that they cannot be Muslim. Even though India is a country that consists of 80 % Hindus, there are still 170 million Muslims that live there and feel as much Indian as everybody else.