"Marginalization of Muslim Girls in Higher Education: A Sociological Analysis on Issues and Challenges"

Abstract

Indian society till today is a traditional and culturally diverse .People in our society belongs to different class, caste, region and religion. Muslim constitutes India’s largest minority but educationally they are one of the most backward communities in the country. Muslim girls lag behind their male counterparts and women from other community in the country itself. Muslim girls from different socio-economic strata have a great deal of marginalization in their life situations. The absence of gender disaggregated data by religion, particularly in respect of literacy rate, enrollment rates at different stages of education, dropout rates etc., at national, states, district levels was a formidable bottleneck in the planning   and development of strategies and programmes for education of Muslim girls at every level.