As a result of white-washed history, our generation has come to accept secularism as an eternal and sacrosanct value of Indian history, culture, and society. The Partition of India is explained as ...

It has not been easy being a Muslim in Narendra Modi’s India. With the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) steadfastly refusing to allow my community even a token representation in corridors of power, ...

Maldah Uttar is a parliamentary constituency in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, where Muslims – India’s largest minority religious group – make up about 45 percent of the electorate. In the ...

(The Conversation) — The Indian prime minister made reference to communities that have “too many children” in a veiled reference to Muslims. (The Conversation) — The world’s largest election is ...

A day after Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's remarks on Miya Muslims triggered a storm, Opposition and Muslim leaders of Assam ...

India turns 75 in August. The country's economy has grown in leaps and bounds since the end of British colonial rule, and India's identity has also changed. In recent years, voters have elected a ...

Delhi • I used to answer the phone with “Salam.” Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim. There is little that would identify me as Muslim to begin with, aside from my name. I don’t wear ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - There are scarcely any Muslims working in India's 10,000-strong external intelligence agency, and neither Muslims nor Sikhs working as bodyguards for the country's top leaders, ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world's largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India's independence, Muslims have often faced ...