A court in India's most populous state has effectively banned Islamic schools by striking down a law governing madrasas.

Madrasas provide a system of education in which students are taught about the Quran and Islamic history alongside general subjects like math and science. https://cnn.it/3VvuCwE

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A court in India’s most populous state has effectively banned Islamic schools by striking down on a law governing madrasas, weeks before a nationwide election that could further polarize the world’s largest democracy along religious lines.