India’s anti-conversion law is fine-tuned to allow policing of Christians

Eight of India’s 28 states have passed laws banning conversions, including Modi’s home state of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, whose chief minister, Adityanath, is a prominent yogi and a Hindu nationalist. While they purport to protect poor Hindus from being exploited, anti-conversion laws have been found to have a more demonstrable effect of generating violence against Christians. A 2019 paper by Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, professors of public policy and global affairs at NTU in Singapore, showed that the states that enforce anti-conversion laws are statistically more likely to give rise to violent persecution against Christians than states that have no such laws. 

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