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In India, demographic change raises religious tensions

February 25, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: India’s Muslim minority is growing, while the fertility rate among the Hindu majority is falling. Hindu nationalists—including leaders of the ruling BJP party, who have insisted on preserving Hindu cultural dominance—see this as cause for alarm.

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