MARGINALISATION: ARTICLE

               

India is a land of diversity where a lot of people live-rich people, poor people middle class people. Today we will discuss that whether the same rights are provided to every class of people .For this, we will look into the concept marginalisation which is also known as social exclusion. There are some people or communities that are not the part of mainstream to which we can call high caste and middle caste people. They may have an experience of being excluded from the mainstream that is the rights that are being provided to the mainstream they are not being provided to the low caste or poor people. This is because they have a low social status and don't have any access to education, technology, resources etc. They are considered marginalised because they speak different language, having different customs and religion and also they are poor. We will talk about the communities that are being marginalised. Adivasis or tribals are the communities whose life is associated with the forests. They have their own language, way of speaking , dressing style. They are believed to be backward, exotic primitive and therefore discriminated. They are thought to be not capable of thinking something ,having lack of knowledge and skills .There are adivasis in many of the states like Odisha, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Jharkhand etc. In the earlier times they were hunter-gatherers and nomads. They practiced shifting cultivation, also do cultivation in one place but gradually they lose their land under the British rule and they were forced to leave the forests. They lost their main sources of livelihood. They migrate to other places in search of work and food. They worked in industries and plantations, construction sites etc. Then there comes the other marginalized  community-the Muslims. Muslims are considered marginalised because they have been deprived of the benefits of socio economic development .They also have their distinct cultures, customs and practices. There are  less number of people belonging to Muslims under social, economic and educational status .In the last we can say that we are living in a democratic country .The constitution has provided the equal rights to every citizen of the country living in India. Also there are special provisions for them provided in the constitution so that they are not left behind of anything that is being provided to the majority group .We should also try to understand that we all are equal and we have to enjoy equal rights that are being provided by the constitution, only then we can be called as good humans.

Thank You.

BY: HARPREET KAUR