{"id":12278,"date":"2019-12-19T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/what-are-indian-citizenship-protests-about-and-how-significant-are-they"},"modified":"2019-12-19T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:38:50","slug":"what-are-the-indian-protests-about-and-how-significant-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12278","title":{"rendered":"What are the Indian protests about and how significant are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstrations against a citizenship law are the largest of Narendra Modi\u2019s tenure<\/p>\n<p>The government has just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/india-to-bring-in-law-denying-citizenship-to-muslim-migrants\">passed a long-mooted law<\/a> to fast-track citizenship applications for refugees from surrounding countries who are Hindu, Christian, Parsi, Jain or Buddhist \u2013 but not Muslim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/what-are-indian-citizenship-protests-about-and-how-significant-are-they\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstrations against a citizenship law are the largest of Narendra Modi\u2019s tenureThe government has just passed a long-mooted law to fast-track citizenship applications for refugees from surrounding countries who are Hindu, Christian, Parsi, Jain &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-protest","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12279,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}