{"id":16969,"date":"2020-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/09\/06\/india-s-constitutional-subjugation-of-hinduism-a-hindu-cry-for-equal-rights\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-constitutional-subjugation-of-hinduism-a-hindu-cry-for-equal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/09\/06\/india-s-constitutional-subjugation-of-hinduism-a-hindu-cry-for-equal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Constitutional Subjugation of Hinduism: A Hindu Cry for Equal Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/ideas\/the-constitutional-subjugation-of-hinduism-a-hindu-cry-for-equal-rights?mc_cid=57e76009cd&#038;mc_eid=3fe7c390e8#new_tab\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.assettype.com\/swarajya\/2020-08\/a3f70018-8fba-47d7-8974-7d7cf933fcc9\/GettyImages_488180538.jpg?w=640&#038;q=75&#038;auto=format,compress\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>INDIA, August 6, 2020 (Swarajyamag by M. Nageswara Rao): India is a unique country. What makes it bizarrely unique is that the Constitution denies the majority indigenous Hindus the same rights as those given to the minority non-Hindus. This reduces Hindus to a form of second-class citizens in their own secular country, created after a faith-based partition of their ancestral land.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt, Hindus have full political rights. But unlike the minorities, they don&#8217;t have freedom to run their educational institutions without undue state interference; their civilizational knowledge and ancient texts are banished from public education; by creating a false equivalence between their non-proselytizing religions and the others, they are gamed for conversion; unlike minorities, they are denied the right to manage their own temples and their religious properties; unlike minorities, they don&#8217;t have the freedom to celebrate and perpetuate their ancestral traditions without undue state interference. This is a brief snapshot of the inequality and discrimination against Hindus in matters of religion, education and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Much more of this lengthy discussion at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, August 6, 2020 (Swarajyamag by M. Nageswara Rao): India is a unique country. What makes it bizarrely unique,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}