{"product_id":"yheo2573dvf6","title":"Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi, Supriya Sharma  [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLove jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyday conversations in India. Amplified by politicians, cacophonic media coverage, and relentless social media forwards and updates, they have come to be accepted as reality by a large number of people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its clear-eyed and scrupulously argued and researched approach, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLove Jihad and Other Fictions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an indispensable antidote to the viral falsehoods threatening to tear India apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Rupa Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48329510125818,"sku":"YHEO2573DVF6","price":615.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/9788119635597_1_1.jpg?v=1767018081","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/yheo2573dvf6","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}