The trend of anti-conversion IMPLICATIONS policies has raised pertinent questions about the validity of people’s fears of religious conversions and Religion has a significant role in the Indian their factual grounding. [...] According to Article 25, “all persons populations growing significantly, and can it be are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and attributed to conversions only, or are there other the right freely to profess, practise and propagate reasons? religion.” In 1977, the Indian Supreme Court, in its interpretation of this right, gave the verdict that the IN BRIEF “right to propagate” refers to a. [...] Observers state that the While the percentage increase of the Muslim laws can be used to intimidate religious and caste population is higher than other groups (Figure 1), minorities, particularly as intolerance continues to according to the Pew Research Center, this trend can grow in the country. [...] It the contradictory nature of these anti-conversion also found that religious conversion has little to no laws does not consider “re-conversion” to Hinduism impact on the overall religious composition of the as conversion, leading to ghar wapsi campaigns, which Indian community. [...] Even Hindu activist groups in anti-conversion laws by multiple Indian states in the diaspora, such as the Global Hindu Heritage the recent past is reflective of the rise of Hindu Foundation (GHHF) in the U.
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