Editing Multiculturalism (section)

==== Cultural minorities in India ====
The Indian constitution requires the various state-run institutions to provide quotas for minorities, which give these cultural minorities equal opportunities, as well as a forum through which they can actively participate in the institutions of the dominant culture.<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Rohini|date=September 2003|title=Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India|journal=The American Economic Review|volume=93|issue=4|pages=1132–1151|jstor=3132282|doi=10.1257/000282803769206232}}</ref> Indian polity after the 1990s has been marked by a shift from secular principles to a landscape that is dominated by pro-Hindu propaganda; the [[Bhartiya Janata Party]] has used this rhetoric by reconstructing Hinduism and bartering it under the guise of Indian nationalism.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Datta|first=Rekha|date=Summer 1999|title=Hindu Nationalism or Pregmatic Party Politics? A Study of India's Hindu Party|journal=International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society|volume=12|issue=4|pages=573–588|jstor=20019991|doi=10.1023/A:1025938125870|s2cid=141252957}}</ref> However, the rise of pro-Hindu ideology, commonly known as [[Hindutva]], has impinged on the rights of cultural minorities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Clarke|first=Sathianathan|date=April 2002|title=Hindutva, Religious and Ethnocultural Minorities, and Indian-Christian Theology|journal=The Harvard Theological Review|volume=95|issue=2|pages=197–226|doi=10.1017/S0017816002000123|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |jstor=4150720|s2cid=162722809}}</ref> This can be seen in the large scale violence against cultural minorities, the [[votebank]] politics used by the [[Indian National Congress]], and the promotion of issues faced by the larger religious communities over those faced by the backward groups in religious minorities.<ref>{{Cite book|title=At Home with Democracy|last=Sheth|first=D.L.|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2018|isbn=978-981-10-6412-8}}</ref>