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Muslim community increasingly marginalized in India

Saturday, 04 March 2017 12:23 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 04 March 2017 12:23 AM ]

Kashmiri Muslims offer prayers as a priest displays a relic at the shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Geelani in Srinagar on January 10, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Shahana Butt
Press TV, New Delhi

The rapidly-growing Muslim population in India has been complaining about discrimination and marginalization over the years. In the Hindu-majority country, Muslims are considered the largest minority who appear at the bottom of almost every socio-economic index. Our correspondent Shahana Butt takes a closer look at the Muslims' predicament in India.

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