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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Minority status and religious conversions.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Religion and Society in India

In India conversion changes a person's religious identity but is made to cost material entitlement. A Dalit who becomes Christian or Muslim acquires the protection of Articles 29 and 30 and simultaneously loses reservation under Article 341. Minority status is therefore not merely acquired by conversion; it is traded for caste status, and that exchange…

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  • The structural fact: the 1950 Order
  • Why people convert
  • Regulating conversion
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