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Valley of Unrest
India's unending occupation of Kashmir
Faleiro, Sonia Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
On life in Kashmir after India revoked its semiautonomous state under the Modi government.
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In December, at Modi's behest, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which put persecuted minorties from neighboring counties on a fast track to citizenship. All the major religions practiced in South Asia were on the list except for Islam. It was a matter of connecting the dots. If, say, a Hindu was denaturalized by a citizenship check, he could apply for citizenship through the CAA. A Muslim could not. "Everything the RSS dreamt of is coming true," said Akshaya Mukul, an expert on the organization. The CAA was viewed by many as the most serious threat to scularism and democracy in the history of India. Mass protests broke out across the country. One of the most popular call-and-reponse slogans - "What do we want? Freedom!" - originated in Kashmir.
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