Research shows that Indian Muslims experience higher levels of
development and equity deficits. Indian Muslims are also predicted
to become the largest Muslim population in the world by 2050. This
increase in numbers might exacerbate their relative deprivation,
creating a disjunction between India's constitutional promises of
""equality of opportunity"" for citizens of a secular
democracy—including for minorities—and the existential reality.
This will create social and political conditions that could
undermine the stability of the country's democracy and make Indian
Muslims a security threat, which would have not only national but
also global ramifications. This book examines the struggle for
equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release
of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread
awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious
minorities in India, especially Muslims. The contributors are some
of the most eminent social scientists in the fields of applied
economics, politics, sociology and demography who work on Indian
issues. The Indian state and its political infrastructure have been
relatively successful thus far in countering the challenges
presented by the diversity of its population. India therefore has
the capacity and the ability to deal with these new challenges,
given the political and collective will.
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