Condition of Muslims in India worse than SC, STs: UK scholar

February 04, 2013 18:38

Muslims in India are even less privileged than members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribes as they enjoy neither equity nor equality of opportunity, a noted British scholar claimed today.

Delivering the Sir Syed Memorial Lecture at Aligarh Muslim University, Gordon Campbell, professor of renaissance studies at Leicester University in the UK, claimed that the condition of Muslims, especially in the field of education, had worsened "in the seven years since the Sachar Committee Report was published".

"Muslims have been marginalised and have limited access in the field of mainstream education and public sector employment in the country," said Campbell, who is also the founding chairman of the Consortium of British Universities in Saudi Arabia.

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