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The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is known for two things: Its size — with 230 million citizens, the population is larger than Brazil’s; and its poverty — as the second-poorest state, its annual income is about half the national average. However, since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, it has also made global headlines for a darker superlative: crimes targeted against Muslims. Those only worsened when, three years later, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stormed to power in Uttar Pradesh, and with it, Yogi Adityanath — a saffron-robed Hindu monk-turned-chief minister with his own...
