 Summary of this article
- Growing alienation among minorities, especially Muslims, reflects rising communal hate and divisive politics in India.
- Events like Gujarat riots, lynchings, Hindutva rhetoric, and disputed verdicts have unsettled the sense of security for Muslim communities.
- Outlook’s covers and analyses show how politics became more fractious and minorities feel marginalised in recent decades.
It used to be said that India is secular not because of the minorities but because of the majority. Because an average Indian whether she is Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Bahai or of any other faith innately believes that all can live in peace and harmony, most of the time.
But in the last 30 years, many have started to wonder if this is indeed true. Or are we inherently communal, each one hating the other’s faith, and taking to violence and subjugating the other at the first provocation? While this question is yet to be answered comprehensively, a sense of alienation among the minorities in India, especially the Muslims, has grown over the years.
The Gujarat riots, the rise of strident Hindutva, the lynching by mobs of people suspected of carrying beef, the bulldozer raj, the Uniform Civil Code, stringent laws against bigamy have all unsettled them. Outlook’s covers give a glimpse of the insecurities and fears the minorities faced in these years, as politics became more divisive and fractious.
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