write an.essay.onreligious.minoritirs.in.india
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The National Commission of Minorities Act, 1992 notifies five religious communities as minorities: Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians.
As per Census 2001 figures, 18.4 per cent of our population belongs to minority communities. Muslims constitute 13.4 per cent, Christians 2.3 per cent, Sikhs 1.9 per cent, Buddhists 0.8 per cent and Parsis 0.07 per cent of the country’s total population. In absolute numbers, Muslims (nearly 140 million) account for 72.8 per cent of the total minority population of 189.5 million.
Muslims are in majority in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep and in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The proportion of Muslims to total population is above the national percentage of 13.4 per cent in Assam (30.9 per cent), West Bengal (25.2 per cent), Kerala (24.6 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (18.55 per cent), Bihar (16.5 per cent) and Jharkhand (13.8 per cent). In absolute numbers, Uttar Pradesh (30.7 million), West Bengal (20.2 million), Bihar (13.7 million), and Maharashtra (10.70 million) have the largest Muslim population.
The highest percentages of Christians to total population are in Nagaland (90 per cent), Mizoram (87 per cent), and Meghalaya (70.03 per cent). There are also significantly large numbers of Christians in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. Sikhs constitute 60 per cent of the population of Punjab. Buddhists are categorised into traditional Buddhists and neo-Buddhist’s.
Traditional Buddhists are, by and large, from tribal communities inhabiting the hilly areas of Ladhakh, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and the north-eastern states. The highest percentage of Buddhists is in Sikkim (28.1 per cent) followed by Arunachal Pradesh (13 per cent). In absolute numbers, Maharashtra reported 58.38 lakh Buddhists, the highest in the country. Parsis number just 69,000, and reside mostly in Maharashtra.
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