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Social Integration: Role of the State and Civil Society
D. N. Dhanagare
Scope and Purpose
This chapter is intended to present a profile of the main minority communities and also some of the deprived and underprivileged sections of the Indian society. The profile broadly covers their demographic aspects, status of literacy and education, health and extent of malnutrition, work and issues of poverty, and conditions of women and children among these minorities and deprived sections. The attempt here is to show how some of these features tend to estrange these sections from what is called the ‘mainstream’ Indian society. Though at times, some of these features are shared by a large section of the mainstream as well, a qualitatively different identity ...
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