India: Ghar Wapsi Program – An Overview
India has witnessed a noticeable increase in communal tensions post May, 2014 election. Among the rising cases of violence against minorities, the issue of reconversions also came in to light. Reconversion, in India, is not a new phenomenon but it has intensified in 2014-2015. This brief explores the emergence of the phenomenon of mass reconversion under the flag of Ghar Wapsi (Home coming); how it contradicts the Indian constitution and secularism, what motivated such occurrence at this point of time and how state and society have reacted to the recurrence of this phenomenon.
India has witnessed a noticeable increase in communal tensions post May, 2014 election. Among the rising cases of violence against minorities, the issue of reconversions also came in to light. Reconversion, in India, is not a new phenomenon but it has intensified in 2014-2015. This brief explores the emergence of the phenomenon of mass reconversion under the flag of Ghar Wapsi (Home coming); how it contradicts the Indian constitution and secularism, what motivated such occurrence at this point of time and how state and society have reacted to the recurrence of this phenomenon.
