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Discuss the factors responsible for the growing feeling of alienation among the religious minorities in India. How can they be made to overcome this feeling?

  • UPSC 1986
  • Religion and Society in India

The Sachar Committee (2006) did something unusual for an official enquiry: alongside schooling and employment it recorded a community's sense of being watched, suspected and asked to prove its loyalty. Minority alienation in India is not grievance but estrangement from citizenship itself — formal membership of the political community coexisting with the experience of not…

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