SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF LITERACY AMONG RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN INDIA

Following the paradigm of inclusive growth the government of India always tries to respond to various socio-economic and developmental issues of the minorities. It would be more relevant to investigate how different communities respond to different social development impulse and where they stand in terms of literacy. It‟s also very interesting to notice in terms of literacy, how religious minorities behave in relation to religious majority community, Hindus. This present paper in a similar vein purports to examine the spatial patterns of literacy across various religious minorities in India, by adopting the district as a unit of study and using the latest Census data of 2011. The Muslims being traditional and socially backwardness recorded lowest literacy among all the religious groups than their literacy and there is much scope in Muslims to improve their literacy. It also put on view that when all religious minorities forms single unit and remained in minority then their literacy recorded higher than the majority community Hindus