Muslims in India's most-populous state protest ban on madrasas

An instructor helps a student at an English modernized madrasa in West Bengal, India, April 2, 2024. (Shaikh Azizur Rahman/VOA) Students study in a classroom inside a modernized madrasa at Orgram village in West Bengal, India, April 2, 2024. More than 50% of students at this madrasa are non-Muslim, mostly Hindu. (Shaikh Azizur Rahman/VOA) Girls and boys participate in physical training in a modernized madrasa in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, on April 2, 2024. (Abrar Hussain/VOA)

Muslim educators in India are protesting a recent court ruling that would effectively shut down thousands of religious schools known as madrasas in the nation's most populous state.