Under the cover of secularism, India has been exploiting its minorities throughout the post-colonial period. Through a well-planned strategy, the areas inhabited by people other than the Hindu majority were kept backward and deprived of basic facilities of life. The worst among all was economic deprivation and denial of basic education to poor minority masses. Among Hindus even, the low-caste Dalits face discrimination alongside the minorities. Dalits constituting about 17 percent of India’s total population. They face all sorts of violence, discrimination and humiliation at the hands of upper caste Hindus, tainted by birth into a caste system that deems them impure and less than human.Sikhs forming less than 2 percent of the total Indian population are being discriminated against and relegated in all spheres of life in Hindu-dominated India. Today, the Indian government, its agencies, and the RSS are directly targeting the Sikh community both inside India and abroad. The situation has now crossed India’s borders entirely. Indian authorities have been implicated in acts of transnational repression, including the 2023 assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh activist in Canada.

India denied any connection but acknowledged Nijjar as a terrorism suspect. This was not an isolated incident. Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, was convicted in the United States in May 2026........

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