Data Definition and Analytical Methodology for Indexing Backwardness According to Socio-religious Communities in Telangana: A Mandal Commission Framework Approach

Effecting Equity and Equality of Opportunity in a Socially Diverse India

“…This empirical, methodological, and analytical exercise can be replicated to understand the depth and size of inter-community deprivations at the state level, even at the district level. For instance, such analytics have been computed for the state of Telangana (Shariff et al, 2021).…”

“…The findings of the inter-community differential exercise carried out by the author show that Muslims have a relatively higher deprivation level for most indicators. Overall, the OBC Muslims (who are 75.5 per cent of all Muslims of Telangana) have the second highest level of deprivation, next only to the Hindu SCs/STs of Telangana (Shariff et al, 2021). For example, while the deprivation levels amongst the SCs/STs are as high as 83 per cent of the maximum possible score, the OBC Muslims have registered the next highest level of deprivation of 69 per cent ( Table 2 ).…”

“… Source: Shariff et al, 2021. Note: *Normalised score in the scale 0–100 using UNDP methodology (0 indicating no deprivation and 100 indicating maximum level of deprivation). …”