Similar Bills in the recent past have been passed in the BJP-ruled state, including Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh

Changing faith or propagating one’s religion: Is it a right or a crime in India?

India allows Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist dalits access to Scheduled Caste reservations but not Christian and Muslim dalits

Karnataka govt considering law to regulate religious conversion: Home Minister

There have been serious discussions regarding controlling such religious conversions, by bringing in a bill or in any other form

raging debates between conversion and reconversion have produced not merely forms of symbolic violence but resulted in actual physical violence.

It is an undeniable fact that for centuries Dalits were caught up in the iron grip of caste.