What ails the Indian Muslims. With every election season, community sympathisers, politicians of all hues (except a certain ones with a dominant hue) and the Muslims themselves start to ponder over the economic and social situation of the Muslims in India. Muslims in India numbering 172 million is the majority community besides being the third largest Muslim population in the world, after Malaysia and Indonesia. If 71 years after the independence, we are forced to still ponder over these issues, then it speaks a lot about the real situation of the Muslims in India. But the moot question is who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs of the community, the rulers or Muslims themselves. Data from the 2011 Census of India on educational level by religious community and gender has shown that 42.7% of Muslims in India are illiterate. This is the highest illiteracy rate for any single religious community in the country, while the illiteracy rate for the entire populat...
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