SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF INDIAN MUSLIMS: A STUDY OF WEST BENGAL
Keywords:
Indian Muslims, Economy, Education and PoliticsAbstract
Socio-economic condition and political representation is an important indicator to measure the development level of any community. This paper is based on the secondary data. The main objective of the study is to explore the socio-economic condition and political representation of Muslims of West Bengal. Though there is paucity of literature and data about this classified as backward community, it is an attempt to gather the data from various sources and put together in a systematic fashion and analyzed. Indicators such as population, urban population, sex ratio, literacy, educational attainment, work participation rate and political representation are discussed. Hence, one can easily understand the plight of the community who are the victims of a process of invidious discrimination in Indian society.
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