Discuss the concept of Majoritarianism and Minoritarianism and its impact on communal tension in India.
Approach:
Introduction
Discuss Majoritarianism
Majoritarianism is the idea that collective decisions are made rightly when they reflect the views of the majority. Political majoritarianism is another name for a ‘supremacist project’ that defines ethnic or religious majorities as a nation’s rightful owners.
Discuss minoritarianism
A political structure or process in which a minority segment of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that entity's decision making.
Body
Describe its main feature
How it places in different groups in mutual antagonistic vis-à-vis each other.
Show with examples like debate around UCC, triple talaq.
Conclude
Conclude with doctrine of principled distance.