This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

Occupational structure of people is one of the significant determinants of human group disparities in socio-economic development. Various development indicators substantiate that women lag behind men in most of yardsticks that measure gender justice and human development, occupation is one of...

To supplement the findings of the Sachar committee report current study explores the changing dynamics of trend and composition of employment of Muslims in India during last two decades. Analysis of employment trends shows that there is a decline in labour force participation of Muslims during...

Analysis of various ethno historical and oral history data suggested that Socio-Economic status of Dalith Muslims is changing over the period of time. Since 1970 the status of Muslims in India has drawn increasing policy attention. Over the last four decades, various Governments have pursued the...

Aristotle, the father of Political Science had said that state is a “union of families and villages”. Family is the basic unit of society, which is the foundation of state itself. Happy families create a healthy society and healthy society is a prerequisite of strong political order in...

Analysis of various ethno historical and oral history data suggested that Socio-Economic status of Dalith Muslims is changing over the period of time. Since 1970 the status of Muslims in India has drawn increasing policy attention. Over the last four decades, various Governments have pursued the...

To meet the mounting demand for Shariah Compliant Investment Avenues in equity markets, hundreds of Islamic Indices have been launched world over. Dow Jones and FTSE Global were the first to launch the Shariah Compliant Index namely DJIMI and FTSE Global Islamic Index Series (GIIS). While a...

A socio-economic profile of Muslims in Maharashtra commissioned by the Maharashtra State Minority Commission indicates dismal conditions on the social, economic and educational fronts as also poor representation in the legislature and the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service...