{"id":3388,"date":"2024-03-24T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2024-03-24T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:26:10","slug":"challenges-facing-indias-democracy-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"Challenges facing India&#8217;s democracy and economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3388\" class=\"elementor elementor-3388\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f8dc945 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f8dc945\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa1b9c4\" data-id=\"aa1b9c4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-591646e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"591646e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/thinktank\/en\/search.html?authors=6070\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrico D&#8217;Ambrogio<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><b>Affiliation:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/portal\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">European Parliament<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><b>Organization\/Publisher:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/portal\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><b>Date\/Place:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> May 2020\/ Brussels, Belgium<\/span><\/p><p><b>Type of Literature: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report<\/span><\/p><p><b>Number of Pages: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4<\/span><\/p><p><b>Link:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/thinktank\/en\/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI(2020)651915\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/thinktank\/en\/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI(2020)651915<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><b>Keywords: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">India, Islamophobia, Kashmir, Citizenship Amendment Act, Persecution, Muslims, Democracy<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><b>Brief:<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This report by European Parliament discusses India\u2019s claims of being a democracy, upholding rule of law, its treatment of minorities (especially Muslims), and India\u2019s sliding economy which was in decline prior to the coronavirus pandemic. India\u2019s soft power and human resource deployment across world capitals, in academia and media, has won it praise and support. However, this report suggests India\u2019s claims are on a frail standing. It notes that 70 years of India\u2019s \u201ctolerance and rule of law\u201d is being challenged by a growing Hindu nationalist influence on society and politics. The slide in India\u2019s religious freedom index, press freedom and allied aspects put India under a spotlight. The author particularly refers to India after the Hindu nationalist face of India &#8211; Narendra Modi \u2013 won a second term in 2019. It says Modi\u2019s party, the BJP, has stepped up several initiatives catering to its Hindu nationalist electoral base. However, the report stops short of calling Kashmir a disputed region when it notes that Modi enforced a military lockdown in August 2019 and re-annexed the region. Kashmir is a UN-designated disputed region, the political future of which is yet to be decided. The report noted how questions are being raised at India\u2019s claim of secularism after it amended its citizenship law to grant citizenship to minority refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan but Muslims do not figure in the list. Amid the dark clouds of rising fascism and Hindu nationalism, which has seen Islamophobia reaching heights, the report points to the downslide of India\u2018s economy despite the country doing well until 2018. The Hindu-majority country achieved its slowest growth rate in the last decade of 5% in 2019\/20 fiscal. It adds that the budget unveiled by the Modi government in Feb. 2020 does not meet expectations of tackling existing structural weaknesses and providing a large fiscal antidote to the economic slowdown.<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><b>By:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Riyaz Ul Khaliq, CIGA Non-Resident Research Associate<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Enrico D&#8217;Ambrogio Affiliation: European Parliament Organization\/Publisher: EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service Date\/Place: May 2020\/ Brussels, Belgium Type of Literature: Report Number of Pages: 4 Link:https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/thinktank\/en\/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI(2020)651915 Keywords: India, Islamophobia, Kashmir, Citizenship Amendment Act, Persecution, Muslims, Democracy Brief: This report by European Parliament discusses India\u2019s claims of being a democracy, upholding rule of law, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-and-southeast-asia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges.jpg",1792,1024,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges-768x439.jpg",768,439,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges-1024x585.jpg",1024,585,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges-1536x878.jpg",1536,878,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Indias-Economic-Challenges.jpg",1792,1024,false]},"author_info":{"info":["CIGA Staff"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">South &amp; 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