State of Indian Minorities: Effects on Domestic Politics and Status Abroad the Country

The Indian society’s theological, cultural, and ethnic diversity poses both challenges and opportunities for the state's democratic structure. India has used the secularism avant-garde to celebrate the plurality. However, its perceptions of metamorphosis have created a controversy between secular philosophy and the rights of minorities. The presence of religious personal laws; the association of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying behind the ideology of Hindutva of a large proportion of the Hindu Diaspora are symbolic of the dispute. The purpose of this study is to address the condition of minorities in India and its interface with domestic politics and the position of the country abroad. A sampling look at the Indian experience becomes important in this context due to its ambitions for regional leadership. The paper argues that the security of minority groups in India especially attracts the attention of the world community because of its complicated social fabric that is marked by caste, ethnicity and religious social ostracism.