Segregated
& Unequal: New Research Reveals How Public Services Are Restricted,
Denied To Muslims, Dalits In Ghettoised Localities
Based on evidence from 1.5 million highly localised neighbourhoods of 700 people each in urban and rural India, a paper finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have public schools, clinics, sewerage, water supply and closed drains than in non-Muslim areas, a misallocation of government services that is comparable to the current situation of blacks in the United States.