SILENCED MINORITY?
Jan 30, 2021
3 minutes
By KAI FRIESE
AFP
Six religious communities are designated as ‘minorities’ in India but it often seems that the term is just another euphemism for ‘a certain community’. Muslims are the emblematic minority in India, partly because they are by far the largest of the six notified groups—the only one with a double digit percentage share of the national population (14.2 per cent in Census 2011)—but also because of the (not unrelated) fact that
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