Majoritarian Responses to Minority Mobilization: Evidence from Citizenship Protests in India

• In Event: Ethnic and Religious Conflict in South Asia

Brief Overview

We explain spatial and temporal variation in protests against a controversial law that makes religion a basis for citizenship in India, and examine the effects of these protests on party campaigns and voting behavior.

Authors

• Anirvan Chowdhury, University of California-Berkeley

• Leja Mathew, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore

• Shamindra Roy, Centre for Policy Research

• Shahana Sheikh, Yale University

• Priyadarshini Singh, Centre for Policy Research