Abstract
Religion as ethno descriptor wields deep rooted impacts on its followers.
Traditionally, the religion has been regarded by the people as a means of
ethical uplift of the individuals, enabling them to maintain and develop better
relations with others. Religion continued its role as a source of spiritual
refinement of individuals until the modern political methods began to demand
allegiance to political groups for gaining maximum share of state’s resources.
Majority of people still believe that religion must not be made a bone of
contention. In this article detailed analysis of the term ‘religious ethnicity’, in
general and the background to the germination of religious ethnicity among
the Indian Muslims in particular has been taken in to account. The article will
enable us better understand the terminology and the sowing of religiously
based seeds of ethnic feelings among the Indian Muslims. The same seeds
ultimately flowered in to the partition of India in 1947 between two religious
ethnic groups, the Hindus and the Muslims creating the first state of the
modern history based on religious ethnicity
Malik Shamas Ali, Dr. Humaira Masood Dar. (2017) Evolution of Religious Ethnicity in the Indian Muslims, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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