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Adivasis are communities in India with over 500 distinct groups, often living in close association with forests and characterized by minimal hierarchy. They face increasing marginalization due to changes in forest laws and industrial projects, while Muslims are identified as a marginalized community due to socioeconomic deprivation and cultural domination. The Constitution of India provides safeguards for minority communities to prevent discrimination and ensure their rights.

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Adivasis are communities in India with over 500 distinct groups, often living in close association with forests and characterized by minimal hierarchy. They face increasing marginalization due to changes in forest laws and industrial projects, while Muslims are identified as a marginalized community due to socioeconomic deprivation and cultural domination. The Constitution of India provides safeguards for minority communities to prevent discrimination and ensure their rights.

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1. Who are Adivasis?

Answer

Adivasis are the communities who lived, and often continue to live, in close
association with forests.

2. How many different Adivasi groups are there in India?

Answer

There are over 500 different Adivasi groups in India.

3. How are Adivasi societies most distinctive? Give one point.

Answer

There is often very little hierarchy among them.

4. How is Niyamgiri viewed by Dongarria Konds?

Answer

Dongarria Konds, an Adivasi community, view Niyamgiri as the sacred


mountain.

5. What do we usually think about Adivasis?

Answer

We usually think that Adivasis are exotic, primitive and backward.

6. Which factor leads to ghettoisation of the Muslim community?

Answer

Social marginalisation of Muslims leads to ghettoisation of this community.

7. Name any four states where Adivasis are in great numbers.

Answer

Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.


8. How are Muslims usually identified?

Answer

Muslims are usually identified by their burqa, long beard and fez.

9. Why are Muslims considered as a marginalised community in India today?

Answer

It is because in comparison to other communities, they have always been


deprived of the benefits of socioeconomic development.

10. What is commonly believed about the Muslims?

Answer

It is commonly believed that the Muslims prefer to send their children to


Madarsas.

11. Define the term 'minority'.

Answer

The term ‘minority’ is the most commonly used to refer to the communities
that are numerically smaller in relation to the rest of the population.

12. What reality is brought in light by the Sachar Committee?

Answer

Only 4% of Muslim children are in Madarsas, whereas 66% attend


government school and 30% private schools.

1. Write in your own words two or more sentences of what you understand by
the word ‘marginalisation’.
Answer: A social process of being confined to lower social standing is
marginalisation. It involves people being denied their fundamental rights, which
results in lowering their social and economic status. It is a situation when a particular
social group is forced to live on the fringes rather than in the mainstream. A
marginalised section of society does not get opportunities for social and economic
development.

2. List two reasons why Adivasis are becoming increasingly marginalised.

Answer: Adivasis are being increasingly marginalised for the following two reasons:

1. Changes in forest laws have deprived the Adivasis of access to forest produce.
2. The construction of factories and other projects in tribal areas have forced many tribal
people to migrate to other places in search of a livelihood.

3. Write one reason why you think the Constitution’s safeguards to protect
minority communities are very important.

Answer: The safeguards to protect minority communities are necessary because the
majority community may culturally dominate the minority communities, and the
minority communities might become marginalised.

4. Re-read the section on Minorities and Marginalisation. What do you


understand by the term minority?

Answer: A minority is a community that is numerically small in relation to the rest of


the population. A particular religious section which has a low percentage in
population compared to the major religious community is called a minority.

The Constitution of India provides safeguards to linguistical and religious minorities


as a part of its fundamental rights and ensures that minorities do not face any
disadvantage or discrimination. In India, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, etc., are
included as minorities.

5. You are participating in a debate where you have to provide reasons to


support the following statement: ‘Muslims are a marginalised community.’
Using the data provided in this chapter, list two reasons that you would give.

Answer: As per the data provided in the chapter, the literacy rate of the Muslim
population in India is only 59%, which is the lowest compared to 65% among Hindus,
70% among Sikhs, 73% among Buddhists, 80% among Christians, and 94% among
Jains.
Also, only 3% of Muslims represent the esteemed Indian Administrative Service
Cadre. The above statistics support that Muslims are a marginalised community in
India.

6. Imagine that you are watching the Republic Day parade on TV with a friend,
and she remarks, “Look at these tribal people. They look so exotic. And they
seem to be dancing all the time.” List three things that you would tell her about
the lives of Adivasis in India.

Answer: Adivasis have a deep knowledge of forests. They were hunters and
gatherers and lived like nomads. They practised shifting agriculture and also
cultivated in a single place. Their deep knowledge of forests made them
indispensable to the rulers of various empires during the pre-colonial period in India.
They have their own language and have influenced the formation of various Indian
languages, Bengali being one of them.

7. In the storyboard, you read about how Helen hopes to make a movie on the
Adivasi story. Can you help her by developing a short story on Adivasis?

Answer: Students have to do this by themselves.

8. Would you agree with the statement that economic marginalisation and
social marginalisation are interlinked? Why?

Answer: Social marginalisation and economic marginalisation are interlinked. Social


marginalisation forces a social group out of the mainstream, resulting in a lack of
opportunities for skill development and education. This means that the people from
marginalised sections will not have proper access to quality healthcare, which in turn
means that a child from the marginalised section does not develop into a financially
stable adult who otherwise is capable enough to ensure a better income. Thus, the
individual who is left behind in socio-economic development also becomes
economically marginalised.

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