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As election nears, religious tensions surge in an Indian village
December 9, 2018 By Faith Matters

As election nears, religious tensions surge in an Indian village

Nayabans isn’t remarkable as northern Indian villages go. Sugar cane grows in surrounding fields, women carry animal feed in bullock carts through narrow lanes, people chatter outside a store, and cows loiter. But this week, the village in Uttar Pradesh state became a symbol of the deepening communal divide in India as some Hindu men […]

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