Modi’s ‘Honeymoon Is Very Much Over’ as Hindu-First Agenda Faces Backlash

NEW DELHI—Protests across India amount to the first real popular resistance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s implementation this year of a Hindu-nationalist agenda his party has long espoused, according to analysts and participants in the demonstrations.

Mr. Modi has moved aggressively since winning a second term with his party’s landslide victory in May elections. Within months of the victory, the government banned a form of divorce allowed under Islamic law and removed the measure of autonomy enjoyed by the country’s only…