{"id":41499,"date":"2022-02-09T01:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/schools-shut-in-india-as-protests-grow-over-headscarf-ban"},"modified":"2022-02-09T01:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:38:51","slug":"schools-shut-in-indian-state-as-protests-grow-over-headscarf-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41499","title":{"rendered":"Schools shut in Indian state as protests grow over headscarf ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim students outraged at what they say is increasing persecution by Hindu nationalist government<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in southern India have ordered schools to shut as protests intensified over a ban on Islamic headscarves that has outraged Muslim students.<\/p>\n<p>The standoff in Karnataka state has galvanised fears among the minority community about what they say is increasing persecution under the Hindu nationalist government of the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/schools-shut-in-india-as-protests-grow-over-headscarf-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim students outraged at what they say is increasing persecution by Hindu nationalist governmentAuthorities in southern India have ordered schools to shut as protests intensified over a ban on Islamic headscarves that has outraged Muslim students.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2890,"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":[62,447,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41499","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\/2890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41500,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41499\/revisions\/41500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}