Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic?
Communal tensions in India have heightened as right-wing Hindu nationalists exploited the Hindu-Muslim divide to hype up threats from COVID-19 and foment hatred against the country’s sizable Muslim minority. The vilification of Muslims could further hamper India’s response to COVID-19 while institut...
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| author | Mohsina, Nazneen Franco, Joseph |
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| description | Communal tensions in India have heightened as right-wing Hindu nationalists exploited the Hindu-Muslim divide to hype up threats from COVID-19 and foment hatred against the country’s sizable Muslim minority. The vilification of Muslims could further hamper India’s response to COVID-19 while institutionalised Islamophobia could damage the country’s pluralistic heritage. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1436882020-11-01T06:37:55Z Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? Mohsina, Nazneen Franco, Joseph S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Social sciences::Political science Country and Region Studies Non-Traditional Security Communal tensions in India have heightened as right-wing Hindu nationalists exploited the Hindu-Muslim divide to hype up threats from COVID-19 and foment hatred against the country’s sizable Muslim minority. The vilification of Muslims could further hamper India’s response to COVID-19 while institutionalised Islamophobia could damage the country’s pluralistic heritage. Published version 2020-09-17T01:07:16Z 2020-09-17T01:07:16Z 2020 Commentary Mohsina, N., & Franco J. (2020). Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? (RSIS Commentaries, No. 109). RSIS Commentaries. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143688 en RSIS Commentaries, 109-20 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Political science Country and Region Studies Non-Traditional Security Mohsina, Nazneen Franco, Joseph Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? |
| title | Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? |
| title_full | Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? |
| title_fullStr | Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? |
| title_short | Rising Islamophobia in India : exploiting the pandemic? |
| title_sort | rising islamophobia in india exploiting the pandemic |
| topic | Social sciences::Political science Country and Region Studies Non-Traditional Security |
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