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A minority is a sociological group that does not constitute a political dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society. A sociological minority is not necessarily a numerical minority it may include any group that is subnormal with respect to a dominant group in terms of social status, education, employment, wealth and political power. To avoid confusion, some writers prefer the terms “subordinate group” and “dominant ...
Untouchability is alive in the countryside though fear of law and rising Dalit assertion seem to have curbed its crude manifestations. These are findings of a survey conducted to study the impact of Production of Civil Rights Act on untouchability commissioned by Union social justice ministry. Villages, the den of this decadent practice, are from being zero-untouchability zones as found in various parts of India.India has a hierarchical caste system in the ...