STATUS AND POSITION OF MUSLIMS IN RAYALASEEMA 1900-2008: A Study in Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Conditions

Résumé du livre

        Issues relating to the social, economic and political status of India’s Muslim Minority Community have been a matter of debate for several decades: quite a few state governments have initiated studies on the community and evolved administrative measures on their recommendations’. As early as the 19th century it self Monstuaret Elphinstone, the legendary British administrator, put it on record that special measures were required to uplift the backward sections of the Muslim Community. Studies conducted by the British administration led to the passage of a government Act in 1935 offering Dalit Muslims reservation facilities along with Dalit Hindus. During the regime of Mrs. Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister, government of India constituted a ten member high power panels on Minorities, Scheduled castes and Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections, headed by Dr. Gopal Singh. The committee after thorough examination of the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community, expressed that “sense of discrimination prevailing among the minorities and that it must be eliminated, root and branch, if we want the minorities to form an effective part of the mainstream.”