Transformation of Caste/Religious Minorities into ‘Composite Majority’ to Counter Majoritarianism in India
Nature of Majority
Though every nation in the world is multi-religious and multi-cultural, in every nation, at least, there is one majority community that is based on religion, language, ethnicity, race and language. However, in the long historical process, it does not remain as it is because the supposed cultural and religious singularity is a myth. In large geographical landscape, within the broader cultural and religious identities, dissimilarities forms out of region specific cultural variations. Certain sub-groups break away from the universal cultural identity and form a particular based on the regional and community cultural specificities as a reaction or a response to the domination of the supposedly dominant over the rest. Regional identity formations could be natural as well as political. Nonetheless, there also enough evidence to prove the custodians of the universal majority identity keep devising strategies to reconcile with the breakaway groups. The majority keeps redefining itself according to the changing context and objectives with the intention keeping the minority as weaker cultural and demographic social group.
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