Varanasi, April 30, 2010: Professor, Imtiaz Ahmed, JNU, New Delhi, in his three day special lecture beginning from April 28 to 30 under the auspices of ‘Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, BHU, Varanasi analysed the problem faced by minorities in India.Minorities, according to him, should not be confined to Muslims; it refers to all the communities which remained excluded because of economic factors. The modern corporate sector has exploited them to the extent that they are placed in the lowest economic stratum of Indian society.
While appreciating the roles of Indian state in solving the minorities’ problems Professor Imtiaz Ahmed said that the reasons of the success of the Indian state may be attributed to the three factors: (1) The state has remained non-intervening and objective in the context of modernisation within the minorities in India. (2) The Indian State has not prohibited any community for expressing their identities in any public space. (3) For last 45 to 50 years, there has not been disparity between community and social class; as a result the Indian State has not witnessed much conflict as being experienced in European and other South Asian countries.
Prof Ajit Kumar Pandey, Coordinator, CSSEIP proposed a vote of thanks in the end of the lecture series. Dr. Vishwanath Pandey, Prof. A K. Kaul, Prof. R P Pathak, Dr. Vineeta Chandra, Dr. S D Sharma, D K Sharma, Vijay Singh, Arvind Vishwakarma and Dr. Syed Ali Nadir were present in this function.
Source: PPP Cell-BHU
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