MINORITY RIGHTS IN INDIA : A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

AUTHORS – AKANSHA DIXIT* & ABHISHEKH MISHRA**

* STUDENT AT AMITY UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW. EMAIL – AKANSHDIXIT2111@GMAIL.COM

** ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT AMITY UNIVERSITY,LUCKNOW

BEST CITATION – AKANSHA DIXIT & ABHISHEKH MISHRA, MINORITY RIGHTS IN INDIA : A CRITICAL ANALYSIS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (4) OF 2025, PG. 1047-1052, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344

ABSTRACT

Upliftment of minorities is an important concern in Indian society and for this concern cultural and educational rights provided in the Indian constitution acts as a virile tool for their growth and development, culture plays a key role for the palatable development of children belonging to community of minorities hence reason stands valid and important for the preservation of culture, script and language.Education holds the same firm stand as that of culture, education is also very important because progress and positive transformation of the society is not possible without education.The issue or problem for minorities is not of recent origin seeds have been sown by Britishers with the concept of divide and rule policy. Partition of country on the basis of religion and declaration of Islamic state were the outcome of long treacherous British rule. Country witnessed one of the greatest forced migrations in human history loot; genocide, plunder, untold suffering of women and a huge amount of destruction of the opposite community during partition are the scars on the body politics of Indian at the dawn of independence.After this mass destruction a separate Muslim state was formed but a considerable number of Muslim remained in India other communities likewise Anglo Indian, Indian Christians, Europeans, etc. opted India as their home land, people vested with the task of framing Indian constitution were aware of the fact that assurance of liberty of thoughts, belief, faith and worship has to be provided to religious minorities.