Welcome to the year-end instalment of The Idea of India, HuffPost India’s monthly conversation about how we see ourselves as a people and as a nation. In India, it was the Citizenship Amendment Act, a law that made religion the basis of granting Indian citizenship, and left Indian Muslims feeling otherized. Meera Chandhoke, a former political science professor at Delhi University, said that people should not buy into the Modi government’s efforts linking the anti-CAA movement to the Delhi riots, and this was first time the civil disobedience was being punished as terrorism. Mary Elizabeth King, who went to work for the civil rights movement in the sixties, said that there was a steady stream of Black Americans who traveled to India from the 1920s to 1950 to learn about Gandhi’s civil disobedience, and eventually deployed it in the mid-Atlantic states fighting racism. ‌Please do share your thoughts: What is your Idea of India?

Source: Huffington Post November 05, 2020 14:26 UTC