Introduction
This chapter explains and theorizes anti-Christian discrimination and violence in India, including the global rise in anti-Christian hostility or increase in antireligious hostility and interreligious violence over the last decades. It highlights the vast majority of violence in contemporary India that targets Christians, such as the large-scale and deadly riots in Kandhamal. It also cites the occurrence of several small-scale incidents of violence against India's Christians every year. The chapter looks at the everyday forms of violence against Christians that go unnoticed, as well as the anti-Christian violence that garner international media attention and shock or mystify observers. It recounts the attack on half a dozen Catholic institutions in Delhi in December 2014 and January 2015 where several cases had anti-Christian sentiment as the prime motivation.