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Define religious minority. Discuss the problems of religious minorities in India.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Religion and Society in India

The Constitution confers rights on "minorities based on religion or language" in Articles 29 and 30 and nowhere says who they are. That silence handed the definition to the courts and to executive notification, and the uncertainty is no technicality: it decides what minority status is worth, who may claim it, and who inside the…

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  • How India has defined the term
  • The sociological definition
  • The vagueness is itself a source of problems
  • The problems in practice
  • Conclusion

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