(ANALYSIS) In 2025, India recorded 1,318 in-person hate speech events, averaging more than three per day and overwhelmingly led by Hindu nationalist groups and political actors affiliated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, according to a report by the India Hate Lab.
The report supports the inference that a political choice is behind the sustained scale of public incitement, which undermines both the rule of law and the idea of equal citizenship.
The 400-page report presents data that show a steady, organised ecosystem of hate mobilised largely against India’s Muslim and Christian minorities. Of the 1,318 incidents, 98 percent targeted Muslims either alone or along with Christians.