How does illiteracy and polygamy affect the population growth???????????
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The census data on religion is partially out in newspapers. The rapidly changing religious demography of West Bengal is once again in academic limelight. Rumours have always been spread by the so-called secularist academia, for obvious reasons, regarding the population growth of Muslims in West Bengal. The left-leaning academia blame the high poverty and low literacy levels among Muslims for their high population growth.
How population growth affects and is affected by literacy and poverty has always been an issue of debate. Malthus was of the view that the high population growth rate causes poverty. However other economists are of the view that poverty is the cause of high population growth in developing countries. However, most economists are almost unanimous about the fact that a higher literacy rate leads to lower population growth in populous developing countries.
The left-leaning academia has found strong theoretical support derived from various demographic theories and studies carried out in relation to population growth with respect to literacy and poverty. They have always explained the increasing population growth rate of Muslims in West Bengal from 21.51 per cent in 1981 to 23.61 per cent in 1991 and further to 25.25 per cent in 2001 and 27 per cent in 2011, in the light of various demographic theories. The theory that higher literacy and lower poverty levels reduce the population growth may seem to have lesser relevance if we employ a cross-section study of different social groups in all the States of India over the last few decades.
The purpose of this article is not to suggest any demographic gap on any religious community of the country, but to explain how reduction in poverty and even increase in literacy failed to control the high population growth of the Muslims. The Muslim population growth should not be seen in isolation but relative to the population growth of other communities co-existing with them in a particular region.
The accepted view that literacy and poverty affects population growth has not brought warranted results in the case of Indian Muslims. The socio-economic conditions of Muslims in India have been compared to Scheduled Caste Hindus, and found to be economically and academically better. The Scheduled Tribes are not considered here since a lot of Muslims fall under this category, which is why they are not mutually exclusive. All the Indian States can be broadly divided into four categories on the basis of relative literacy and poverty levels of Muslims compared to Scheduled Caste Hindus.
Higher literacy and lower poverty rates: Almost all of the major States fall under this category. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar have a higher literacy rate as well as a lower poverty rate of Muslims in comparison to Scheduled Caste Hindus. Although the entire data has not been published on the website of Census of India, the newspaper reports indicate that despite higher literacy and lower poverty ratio, all of these States display higher population growth of Muslims than Scheduled Caste Hindus.
Higher literacy and higher poverty rates: No State in India has a higher literacy as well as higher poverty rates of Muslims than Scheduled Caste Hindus.
lower literacy and lower poverty rates: Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, and Haryana fall under this category. Here the literacy rate of Muslims is lower than that of Scheduled Caste Hindus, and their poverty levels are also lower than the latter. Despite lesser poverty and literacy rates, the population growth rate of Muslims is not only higher than all other social groups but also higher than Scheduled Caste Hindus.
lower literacy and higher poverty rates: Only two States viz. West Bengal and Assam, have literacy levels of Muslims lower than Scheduled Caste Hindus and the poverty ratio of Muslims higher than the latter. Here again the population growth rate of Muslims are higher than not only non-Muslims but also Scheduled Caste Hindus. In case of West Bengal, the population growth of Muslims during the last decade was 21.8 per cent which is approximately 40 per cent higher than that of Scheduled Caste Hindus and approximately 100 per cent higher than all non-Muslims. The population growth of Muslims was higher in Assam.
Source: Census of India and NSSO. Data on 2011 religious composition are based on recently published news papers. Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Northeastern states are not considered in the study due to the lack of information of all the variables.
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Illiteracy make people believe on unnecessary things. Polygamy make people Illiteracy. Illiteracy make people feel that they should give birth a baby boy but they gave birth to a baby girl. So population growth is increased