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How do you understand the ‘minority’ question? Examine the violence and discrimination against the religious minorities in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Religion and Society in India

Articles 29 and 30 confer rights on "minorities" and nowhere define the word, while the notified minority communities are about 17 per cent of Indians by Census 2011. That gap — a protected category left undefined — is where India's minority question sits: a question about power and non-dominance, settled administratively and contested politically.

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  • The minority question in the Indian register
  • Violence: produced, not inherited
  • Discrimination as routine
  • Conclusion

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