Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Session 4
Salamah Ansari
Module
2
Religion Based Political Organizations
1. Akali Dal
3
Caste Based Political Organizations
1. Muslim OBC Movement: Maharashtra
Politics of Reservation
4
Secularizatio
n
Poverty Caste
DEVELOPMENT
Disparities Religion
Economic
Democracy
Growth
Development
• An attractive and powerful idea
• Poverty-related programmes: most heavily-funded government schemes
• Religion/ culture do not disappear from public life with the onset of
economic change
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Disparities
• Issues relating to deprivation and citizenship are raised by identity
movements of historically deprived collectivities such as the dalits and
adivasis, Muslims
10
Economic Growth
• Involvement of religion with politics and economics has always
been looked upon with suspicion
11