G-8 Understanding Marginalization

30-10-2024 Lesson-5 Understanding Marginalization
Glossary:
1. Adivasis: Scheduled tribes are known as adivasis.

2. Minorities: The community whose population is less. Example: Muslims. Christians, etc. in
India.
3. Dalits: Scheduled castes are known as Dalits.
4. Heirarchy: The caste system is a hierarchical system and Dalits are considered to be at the
lowest.
5. Ghettoisation: Due to various social, cultural and economic reasons, members of a particular
community settle in an area together is called ghettoisation.
6. Mainstream: It refers to the dominant community in the society who are usually powerful and
influential. Example: the rich, people of high caste, high posts, etc.
7. Displaced: It refers to the people who are forced or compelled to move from their homes for
big development projects including dams, mining and HYDRAA project in Hyderabad.
8. Militarised: An area where the presence of the armed forces is considerable.
9. Malnourished: A person who does not get adequate nutrition or food.
Q.1 Write in your own words two or more sentences of what you understand by the
word ‘marginalization’.
Ans: Marginalisation means the communities which are put at the margins of economic and
cultural development.
i) These communities are devoid of any changes or advancement which other people enjoy
in modem times.
ii) Scheduled Castes, Scheduled tribes, Minorities, women and children are the marginalized
groups in the Indian society.
Q.2 List two reasons why Adivasis are becoming increasingly marginalised.
Ans. The development of forests robbed the Adivasis of their natural territory and livelihood
and turned them into marginal and powerless communities.
i) The Adivasis are portrayed negatively as exotic, primitive and backward people and are
represented through colourful costumes and headgears.
ii) This has led to the marginalization of this community in modern India.
Q.3 Write one reason why you think the Constitution’s safeguards to protect minority
communities are very important?
Ans. Constitutional safeguards are important because:
i) These communities are backward and are lacking at educational, social, and economic
levels.
ii) To give them equal status in society these safeguards are required. For the progress of a
nation, it is necessary that all parts of society should progress.
Q.4 Re-read the section on Minorities and Marginalisation. What do you understand
by the term minority?
Ans. The term minority is most commonly used to refer to communities that are numerically
small in relation to the rest of the population.
i)The Indian Constitution provides safeguards to religious and linguistic minorities as part of
its Fundamental Rights.
ii) It ensures that minorities are not discriminated against and that they do not face any
disadvantage.
Q.5 Debate ‘Muslims are a marginalized community’.
Ans. I agree that ‘Muslims are a marginalized community’ because:
i)The literacy rate of the Muslim population in India is the lowest. It is only 59%.
ii)43.2% of Hindus have access to electricity while only 30% of Muslims have access to
electricity.
iii) Muslims are less educated.
iv)They have very little share in government jobs.
Q6. List three things about the lives of Adivasis in India.
Ans. Adivasis had a deep knowledge of the forests.
i)They were traditionally hunter-gatherers and nomads and lived by shifting agriculture and
also cultivating in one place.
ii) This knowledge of forests made the Adivasis indispensable to the Rulers of the various
Empires in India during the pre-colonial days.
iii) Adivasis have their own languages which may be as old as Sanskrit.
Q8. ‘Economic marginalization and social marginalization are interlinked’.
Ans. Yes, economic and social marginalization is interlinked as follows:
i) Dalits and tribals were considered a lower class of society.
ii) They are living in separate areas of villages.
iii) Tribals are living in remote areas with no proper education and no good jobs.
iv) When they do not get opportunities they remain economically weak and do not get an
education and this circle continues.

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1. Adivasis: Scheduled tribes are known as adivasis.

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