Research Scholar, Department of Sociology and Social Work, AMU, Aligarh-202002, India.
Online published on 6 August, 2012.
The socio-economic profile that the Sachar Committee estimates that the Muslims of Indian are a depressing and pathetic one and further pointed out that the condition of Muslims are above SCs and STs but below Hindu General, Hindu OBCs and other socio religious category in all most all indicator of developments. Once Rafique Zakaria highlighted the pathetic condition of Muslim in his book by saying that the conditions of Muslims have become worse than the Dalit. First, they spend less on item of daily consumption because they apparently earned less. Second, literacy rate among Muslims are much lower than the Hindus. Third, working Muslims are to be found more in casual labour and in informal sector. Fourth unemployment's rates are higher among Muslims than Hindus. Most of the Muslims leaders were concerned with the emotive issues like Muslim personal law, Hajj Committee, Article 370, the status of Kashmir, rather than reservation, socio-economic and educational development of community. Thus even the sixty years of independence, the socio-economic condition of Muslims remain pathetic and more vulnerable.
