This book provides a comprehensive look into the development challenges and critical socio-economic issues of the Muslim communities in Uttar PradeshIndias most populous state and home to one of its largest Muslim populations.
This book provides a comprehensive look into the development challenges and critical socio-economic issues of the Muslim communities in Uttar PradeshIndias most populous state and home to one of its largest Muslim populations.
Well-known for its syncretic culture, benevolent kings and nawabs, Uttar Pradesh has also been a region that has historically experienced significant religious politics and communal violence. This book moves beyond these sectoral approaches and attempts to present a holistic, detailed, and contemporary perspective on the development of Muslims in the state. It traces the complex sectarian, caste-based, occupational, and regional diversities within the Muslim population in Uttar Pradesh and investigates the intersections of identity, social stratification, and development. Drawing on detailed empirical research, the volume explores critical issues such as educational and occupational mobility, health disparities, livelihood patterns, migration, and access to financial services. It highlights the persistent inequalities faced by Muslims in the state and examines how historical and contemporary processes including sectarian divides, caste hierarchies, political marginalisation, and policy shortcomings have shaped their current realities.
This book, along with its companion volume Development Challenges of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, development studies, anthropology, human geography, sociology, and minority studies. It will also be of relevance to those in development administration, civil society organizations, and the general reader interested in development and deprivation in the state or Hindu-Muslim politics.
List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors. Preface and
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction
2. Situating Muslims in Uttar Pradesh:
History and Progress Part I: Demographic Features, Education, and Health
3.
Demographic Profile of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh: An Analysis of Situation and
Recent Transitions
4. Intergenerational Occupational and Educational
Mobilities among Muslims in Uttar Pradesh
5. School Education among Muslims
in Uttar Pradesh: Access, Equity and Quality
6. Diversity of Madarasas in
Uttar Pradesh
7. Mind the Gap: Inequality in Access to Higher Education among
Muslims in Uttar Pradesh
8. Education and the low-level Equilibrium Trap of
UP Muslims: Are we Mis-specifying the Nature of the Problem?
9. Health and
Nutritional Status among Socio-Religious Groups in Uttar Pradesh: The Context
of Muslims
10. Socio-Economic and Health Status of Elderly across
Socio-Religious Groups in Uttar Pradesh Part II: Livelihoods, Economic
Condition, and Financial Inclusion
11. Socio-Economic Conditions of Muslims
in Uttar Pradesh
12. Employment and Unemployment among Socio-Religious Groups
in Uttar Pradesh
13. Migration and Remittances among Muslims in Uttar Pradesh
14. International Migration among Muslims from Uttar Pradesh
15. Landholdings
in Uttar Pradesh: Distributional Inequalities among Socio-Religious
Categories
16. Status of Industrial Ownership of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh
17.
Religion-based Discrimination in the Labour Market in Uttar Pradesh
18.
Financial Inclusion in Uttar Pradesh. Index
Amir Ullah Khan is Research Director at the Centre for Development Policy and Practice and Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business. Abdul Shaban is Professor and Chairperson of the Centre for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. Venkatnarayana Motkuri is Associate Professor of research cell on education (RSEPPG) at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India.
