1. Write in your own words in two or more sentences of what you understand by the word ‘marginalisation’?
The word ‘marginalisation’ refers to a situation in which an individual or a group of individual is deprived of certain privileges or treated as different from others.
2. List two reasons why Adivasis are becoming increasingly marginalised.
- They usually resist changes or new ideas.
- Advasis lead their life in their own way without any interference from others.
3. What do you understand by the term minority?
The term ‘minority’ refers to communities which are numerically small in relation to the rest of the population.
4. You are participating in a debate where you have to provide reasons to support the following statement. ‘Muslims are a marginalised community’. Using the data provided in this chapter, list two reasons that you would give.
The two reasons are (i) Muslims are deprived of basic amenities. (ii) They have little access to education.
5. Who are Scheduled Tribes.
They are the castes which are treated as untouchables in the caste hierarchy of India.
6. Describe Scheduled Tribes.
Scheduled Tribes are the people or castes which reside in the forest and hilly areas and are socially discarded and economically backward.
7. Define backward classes.
Backward classed is the name given to the weaker sections of the society other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
8. What is untouchability?
Untouchability is the practice of exploitation and segregation followed by the upper caste Hindus against the lower caste Hindus.
9. What is Ghettoisation?
Ghettoisation is a process in which an area or locality is populated largely by members of a particular community.