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Discuss the problems of religious minorities in India.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Religion and Society in India

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India notifies six communities as minorities under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, and Jains, added in 2014 — together about a fifth of the population. T. K. Oommen insists the status is relational rather than arithmetical: it is produced where cultural difference meets structural disadvantage. Their difficulties…

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