Minority community in india

The Scheduled Castes SCs) and Scheduled Tribes ( STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. :3 For much of the period of :2 In modern literature, the Scheduled Castes are sometimes referred to as The Scheduled Castes and Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,108 Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 lists 744 tribes across 22 states in its First Schedule. Since the independence of India, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were given :35,137 Definition [ ] This section needs expansion. You can help by ( November 2022) Scheduled Tribes As per Article 366 (25) of Constitution of India the Scheduled Tribe is defined as; "Such History [ ] The evolution of Lower caste to modern-day Scheduled Castes is complex. The Since the 1850s, these communities were loosely referred to as Depressed Classes, with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.The early 20th century saw a flurry of activity in the In 1935, the UK The Government of India (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1936, which contained a list (or Schedule) of castes throughout the British-administered provinces. After independence the The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, Government initiative to improve the situation of SCs and STs [ ] The Constitution provides a three-pronged strategy • Protective arrangements: Such measures as are required to enforce equality, to provide puniti...

Introduction • The Government has made every section of the society an equal partner of progress with the commitment to “Development with Dignity”“Empowerment without Appeasement” and “Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas” ensuring equal benefits to all sections of the society. Irrespective of his or her caste, religion, region, and community is at the centre of welfare schemes of the Government. • The Government has been treating all the sections of the society including the Muslims as equal partners of the development process. • Hence the Minorities in India are flourishing equally with all the other sections of the society with a sense of equality, security, and prosperity. Constitutional Articles related to Minority and their Classification • But Minority is not defined in the Constitution. Constitution recognizes Religious minorities in India and Linguistic minorities in India through Article 29 and Article 30. • Article 29 : It provides that any section of the citizens residing in any part of India having a distinct language, script, or culture of its own, shall have the rights of minorities in India to conserve the same. Article 29 is applied to both minorities (religious minorities in India and Linguistic minorities in India) and also the majority. It also includes – rights of minorities in India to agitate for the protection of language. Hence political speeches with respect to this are ok. • Article 30 : All minorities shall have the rights of minorities in Ind...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government increasingly harassed, arrested, and prosecuted rights defenders, activists, journalists, students, academics, and others critical of the government or its policies. The government continued to impose harsh and discriminatory restrictions on Muslim-majority areas in Jammu and Kashmir since revoking the state’s constitutional status in August 2019 and splitting it into two federally governed territories. Attacks continued against minorities, especially Muslims, even as authorities failed to take action against BJP leaders who vilified Muslims and BJP supporters who engaged in violence. The Covid-19 lockdown disproportionately hurt marginalized communities due to loss of livelihoods and lack of food, shelter, health care, and other basic needs. Jammu and Kashmir Hundreds of people remained detained without charge in Jammu and Kashmir under the draconian Public Safety Act, which permits detention without trial for up to two years. In June, the government announced a new media policy in Jammu and Kashmir that empowers the authorities to decide what is “fake news, plagiarism and unethical or anti-national activities” and to take punitive action against media outlets, journalists, and editors. The policy contains vague and overbroad provisions that are open to abuse and could unnecessarily restrict and penalize legally protected speech. The government also clamped down on critics, journalists, and human rights activists. The restri...

• Some two hundred million Muslims live in India, making up the predominantly Hindu country’s largest minority group. • For decades, Muslim communities have faced discrimination in employment and education and encountered barriers to achieving wealth and political power. They are disproportionately the victims of communal violence. • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling party have moved to limit Muslims’ rights, particularly through the Citizenship Amendment Act, which allows fast-tracked citizenship for non-Muslim migrants from nearby countries. Experts say anti-Muslim sentiments have heightened under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has pursued a Hindu nationalist agenda since elected to power in 2014. Since Modi’s reelection in 2019, the government has pushed controversial policies that critics say explicitly ignore Muslims’ rights and are intended to disenfranchise millions of Muslims. Under Modi, violence against Muslims has become more common. The moves have sparked protests in India and drawn international condemnation. Who makes up India’s Muslim population? More on: India is a country of religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity. Its estimated two hundred million Muslims, most of whom identify as Sunni, account for How did India’s partition influence Hindu-Muslim relations? Some of the animus between India’s Hindus and Muslims can be traced to the cataclysmic partition of British India in 19...

Hindus can get minority status in some states: Centre to Supreme Court The Centre has told the Supreme Court that states can consider granting Hindus the ‘minority’ status, if the community is not in a majority within their jurisdictions, to enable them establish and administer educational institutions of their choice, in keeping with the rights guaranteed to But what does minority status mean, who decides it and why the "majority" is seeking the minority tag. Here's what you need to know ... Minorities in India The Centre had in 2013 said that the Constitution does not define the term “minorities” anywhere but only mentions it in some Articles. It had said that Article 29 refers to “minorities” in its marginal heading and speaks of “any section of citizens having a distinct language, script and culture”. An entire community or a group within a majority community could thus be seen as a minority. Meanwhile, Article 30 of the Indian Constitution states the right of minorities to establish and administer their educational institutions. It says: “All minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.” But the Centre has stressed that such benefits do not involve quotas in jobs and admissions but efforts to raise the education level and participation in employment, skill and entrepreneurship development and reducing deficiencies in civic amenities and infrastructure. Moreover, these are ...