The changing face of religious demography
7 months ago

The changing face of religious demography

New Indian Express  

An important study undertaken by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister —an analysis of the evolving status of religious minorities around the world—provides significant and renewed evidence of the demographic decline of the majority and the growing population of minorities in most nations including India. The working paper, which examined demographic change between 1950 and 2015 across 167 nations, found that the share of the majority in India—Hindus—declined by 7.8 percent to 78.06 percent of the population. During the same period, the Muslim population in India rose from 9.84 percent to 14.09 percent. In Myanmar, the Theravada Buddhist population shrunk by 10 percent, while in Nepal the Hindu and Buddhist populations registered 4 percent and 3 percent declines, and the Muslim population rose 2 percent.

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Census and Sensibility | Power Play by Anand Mishra
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Census and Sensibility | Power Play by Anand Mishra

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 08, 2024 18:03 IST - 7 MINS READ Dear readers, India’s demographic dividend is a much-talked-about subject. In August, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is the BJP’s co-incharge for the Jharkhand election, accused the JMM government of engaging in “Muslim appeasement”, and claimed that the number of Bangladeshi infiltrators had risen “from 20 per cent …

JMM-led alliance ‘patronising’ Bangladeshi ‘infiltrators’ in Jharkhand for ‘vote bank’: BJP’s Amar Kumar Bauri
3 months, 1 week ago

JMM-led alliance ‘patronising’ Bangladeshi ‘infiltrators’ in Jharkhand for ‘vote bank’: BJP’s Amar Kumar Bauri

The Hindu  

The Leader of Opposition in Jharkhand Assembly Amar Kumar Bauri said the Central Government had informed the High Court that illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are living in the State, which the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led alliance government has been denying for "vote bank". In an affidavit filed before a division Bench of acting Chief Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Arun Kumar …

India remains host and source of most Hindu migrants; GCC nations, USA emerge as key emigration hubs: Study
4 months ago

India remains host and source of most Hindu migrants; GCC nations, USA emerge as key emigration hubs: Study

New Indian Express  

A study by US-based think tank Pew Research Center has revealed India as the leading source of Hindu migrants, with 7.6 million Hindus born in the country currently living abroad. The study also found that Hindu migrants tend to travel longer distances compared to other groups, averaging 3,100 miles from their country of origin, which is significantly more than the …

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: Seventeen months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meet in Delhi that his party should reach out to Muslims, especially those from the economically backward strata, the minority community may have emerged as a major hindrance to the saffron camp’s target of winning 30 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in the …

Dispelling population myths triggered by a working paper
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Dispelling population myths triggered by a working paper

The Hindu  

Many media reports and politicians have tended to misinterpret and sensationalise findings from a working paper put out by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, titled “Share of Religious Minorities: A Cross-Country Analysis ”. The working paper states: “the actual reasons for the change in the religious demography of a country is a multivariate phenomenon in a complex …

Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth?
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth?

Al Jazeera  

India’s Hindu nationalists have peddled conspiracy theories about Muslims. ‘Those with more children’ What Modi said: During an election rally on April 21 in the western state of Rajasthan, Modi claimed that if the Congress party came to power, it would distribute the country’s wealth among Muslims. ‘Congress will snatch mangalsutras, give them to its vote bank’ What Modi said: …

Has India’s Muslim population really exploded?
7 months ago

Has India’s Muslim population really exploded?

Al Jazeera  

A new government report claims that the country’s Muslim population share has increased 43 percent since 1950, fuelling an unfounded conspiracy theory. The data shows, according to the paper, that in India, “minorities are not just protected but thriving” – even though multiple international reports and rankings warn of the country’s decline in religious freedom. “It is an exercise in …

Government Report on Population Sparks Political Controversy
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Government Report on Population Sparks Political Controversy

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: A recent government panel's findings on population dynamics ignited a fierce political debate as the ruling BJP and opposition parties clashed over its implications. The report titled Share of Religious Minorities A Cross Country Analysis sheds light on significant shifts in India's demographic landscape. While the BJP expressed concerns about the rapid growth of the Muslim population and …

EAC report showing dip in share of Hindu population poses serious questions, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar; Amit Malviya blames Congress
7 months, 2 weeks ago

EAC report showing dip in share of Hindu population poses serious questions, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar; Amit Malviya blames Congress

The Hindu  

The recent report of the Economic Advisory Council to the PM said that in India, the share of the majority Hindu population decreased by 7.82% between 1950 and 2015, while the share of the Muslim population, which in 1950 was 9.84%, increased to 14.09% in 2015 — a 43.15% increase in their share. ”Given this large increasing population of one …

BJP Attributes Decline in Hindu Population to Congress Governance
7 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP Attributes Decline in Hindu Population to Congress Governance

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The BJP has attributed the 7.82% decrease in the Hindu population from 1950 to 2015 to Congress's governance. Amit Malviya, head of BJP's IT cell shared an article by Business Standard highlighting the decline in Hindu population and the growth in Muslim population on X. Malviya emphasized, "Share of Hindus shrunk 7.8% between 1950 and 2015. pic.twitter.com/xNUramJyNE — …

Projected population of Muslims in 2023 to stand at 19.75 crore: Govt in Lok Sabha
1 year, 5 months ago

Projected population of Muslims in 2023 to stand at 19.75 crore: Govt in Lok Sabha

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The projected population of Muslims in India in 2023 would stand at 19.75 crore, the government has informed the Lok Sabha. In a written reply to a question by TMC MP Mala Roy in Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani said as per the Census 2011, Muslim population is 17.22 crore, which constitutes 14.2 per cent of …

1 city, 2 people — and India’s widening religious divide
1 year, 8 months ago

1 city, 2 people — and India’s widening religious divide

Associated Press  

AYODHYA, India — Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi says India is a changed country, one he doesn’t recognize anymore. ___ India is home to some 200 million Muslims who make up the predominantly Hindu country’s largest minority group. Though India’s communal fractures date back to its bloody partition in 1947, most Indians trace the roots of the latest religious fault lines …

How Ayodhya city reflects India’s widening religious divide
1 year, 8 months ago

How Ayodhya city reflects India’s widening religious divide

Al Jazeera  

Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi says India is a changed country, one he does not recognise any more. The 48-year-old Hindu priest says India is on a quest to redeem its religious past and that the country is fundamentally a Hindu nation where minorities, especially Muslims, must subscribe to Hindu primacy. Though India’s communal fractures date back to its bloody partition …

Unlike Pakistan’s minorities, every strand of the Muslim community is doing its business in India: Nirmala Sitharaman
1 year, 8 months ago

Unlike Pakistan’s minorities, every strand of the Muslim community is doing its business in India: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Hindu  

India is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world and those blaming the country on minority issues have no clue about the ground realities, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Addressing a Washington DC audience during a fireside chat at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on Monday, April 10, 2023, Ms. Sitharaman said the Muslim …

Preachy Bilawal should know Pakistan is a graveyard of minorities: As for India, just look at Parsis and Bohras
2 years, 2 months ago

Preachy Bilawal should know Pakistan is a graveyard of minorities: As for India, just look at Parsis and Bohras

Firstpost  

If India’s true minority policy has to be understood and appreciated, one should look at how some of the smallest communities like Parsis, Jews and Buddhists or even Bohras, Ismailis and Ahmadiyyas have been treated Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, speaking at an event in New York on the sidelines of the just concluded UN General Assembly, claimed that …

Right Word | Change in ‘religious demography’ of India is not hyperbole, it is a real threat
2 years, 5 months ago

Right Word | Change in ‘religious demography’ of India is not hyperbole, it is a real threat

Firstpost  

Dr JK Bajaj of the Centre for Policy Studies did some path-breaking work by breaking down the Census 2011 data and the results clearly indicate the need to ponder upon the issue of ‘religious demography’ of India Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recently expressed concern over an adverse fall out of an imbalance in the religious demography of Bharat. …

Hindus comprise just 1.18% of Pakistan population
2 years, 6 months ago

Hindus comprise just 1.18% of Pakistan population

Firstpost  

The report, based on data collected from National Database and Registration Authority, says that minorities constituted less than five per cent of the total population of Pakistan, with Hindus being the largest minority community Peshawar: Pakistan is home to 22,10,566 people from the minority Hindu community, comprising only 1.18 cent of the country’s total registered population of 18,68,90,601, according to …

The killing of two Sikhs shows Pakistan's continued persecution of minorities
2 years, 7 months ago

The killing of two Sikhs shows Pakistan's continued persecution of minorities

Firstpost  

Data from the 2017 Census shows that while Muslims make up 96.2 per cent of Pakistan’s population, Hindus are only 1.6 per cent, Christians 1.59 per cent, Scheduled Castes 0.25 per cent, Ahmadis 0.22 per cent, and other minorities 0.07 per cent. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, as per a PTI report, said India had registered its “strong protest” …

Data | Fertility rates decline across religions in India, sharpest drop recorded among Muslims
3 years, 3 months ago

Data | Fertility rates decline across religions in India, sharpest drop recorded among Muslims

The Hindu  

The religious composition of India’s population has remained largely stable since Independence as fertility rates have declined across all religious groups, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. There has been a significant decline in fertility rates across religious groups, with Muslims recording the highest drop. Drop in fertility levels The chart depicts the steep fall in fertility …

Fertility rates of Hindus and Muslims converging: study
3 years, 3 months ago

Fertility rates of Hindus and Muslims converging: study

The Hindu  

The religious composition of India’s population since Partition has remained largely stable, with both Hindus and Muslims, the two largest religious groups, showing not only a marked decline but also a convergence in fertility rates, according to a new study published by the Pew Research Center, a non-profit based in Washington DC. From 1992 to 2015, the total fertility rates …

The propaganda in India that Muslims will outnumber Hindus by 2035 is governed by prejudice, not facts
3 years, 4 months ago

The propaganda in India that Muslims will outnumber Hindus by 2035 is governed by prejudice, not facts

The Hindu  

In response to a question about his government’s relief measures for the victims of the communal carnage in Gujarat in 2002, which claimed nearly a thousand lives, Chief Minister Narendra Modi remarked callously: “What should I do? In the game of numbers, Sakshi Maharaj felt, Muslims, who constituted 14.2 per cent of the population in the country, were poised to …

SY Quraishi debunks the myth of India’s rising Muslim population
3 years, 10 months ago

SY Quraishi debunks the myth of India’s rising Muslim population

Live Mint  

Growing up, SY Quraishi, like many people around him, thought Islam was against family planning. Yes, the average Muslim family in India had more children than Hindus, but it wasn’t because of an “organized conspiracy” to change the demography of India. Some also cite the high fertility rates among Muslim women – 2.61 births per woman compared to the Hindus’ …

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report
4 years, 4 months ago

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report

India TV News  

Religious persecution and forced conversion continues unabated in Pakistan as dozens of Hindu families were converted to Islam in June in the Badin district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, which borders with Gujarat's Kutch at its south. According to a New York Times report, the mass ceremony was the latest in line of growing number of attempts by various …

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