The systematic annihilation of Muslim livelihoods has been a central marker of the Modi years. This has been caused in part by the frequently violent activism of non-government formations fraternal to the Bharatiya Janata Government and affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. What is sometimes missed is the central role in all of this of the state.
It is important to understand that what the country has witnessed – and India’s Muslim citizens have endured – under Narendra Modi’s leadership is not merely a random conglomeration, a massing of unconnected individual hate attacks on Muslim livelihoods. The years of Modi’s leadership have witnessed a conscious and catastrophic dismantling of the livelihoods and economic foundations of an already highly dispossessed community through both law and policy.
Analysts observe that “while Muslim disadvantage has been widely noted… there are few policies in place to protect them”. Such policies could include building better educational infrastructure in Muslim majority areas, training more Muslim teachers, enhancing the quantum and coverage of scholarships for Muslim children and youth, and taking strict action against discrimination. On the contrary, the effort is in the reverse direction, with many scholarship schemes for minority children either wound up or severely under-budgeted.
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