Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods
Jain, Sreenivasan (Author)/ Sharma, Supriya (Author)/ Alavi, Mariyam (Author)
Language: English
Published by Aleph Book Company, 2024
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- Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods
- Author
- Jain, Sreenivasan (Author)/ Sharma, Supriya (Author)/ Alavi, Mariyam (Author)
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- Aleph Book Company
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- 2024
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- Hardcover
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- English
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But are these claims—that India’s minorities are plotting to weaken the majority Hindu community—based on the truth? Or are they fictions created and disseminated to serve the interest of power?
In this book, the authors interrogate some theories that are part of the landscape of WhatsApp chats and social media feeds of millions of Indians every day. Chapter 1 examines ‘love jihad’, perhaps the most ascendant of all these claims. Starting with the first known case of ‘love jihad’, the authors investigate arguably the only definitive list of ‘love jihad’ cases. They travel to the state where the largest number of arrests have been made under new anti-love jihad laws to explore if the crackdown is justified. Chapter 2 places ‘population jihad’—the claim that Muslims are waging a holy war by producing more children—under the scanner.
The authors crunch the numbers and trawl through parliamentary records to decode whether Muslims will indeed outnumber over a billion Hindus in the near future. Chapter 3 scrutinizes the Hindutva claim of a sinister Christian scheme to take over India through mass forced conversions. Chapter 4 examines the theory of Muslim appeasement, probing assertions like unequal availability of electricity on Diwali and Eid, the hajj subsidy, funds to madrasas, and the favourite bugbear of the Hindu Right: Muslim men being able to take up to four wives.
With its clear-eyed and scrupulously argued and researched approach, Love Jihad and Other Fictions is an indispensable antidote to the viral falsehoods threatening to tear India apart.
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About the Author
Sreenivasan Jain is a New Delhi-based journalist and broadcaster. In a career spanning three decades, he has reported on wars, elections, insurgencies, majoritarianism, and corruption scandals for the television network NDTV where he worked till early 2023
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