Declining sikh space on the religious and political landscape of India

Mangat Harwant Singh (), Ahmed Shaik Iftikhar () and Gill Lakhvir Singh ()
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Mangat Harwant Singh: Department of Geography, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
Ahmed Shaik Iftikhar: Population Research Centre, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh, India
Gill Lakhvir Singh: University College, Ghanaur, Patiala, India

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, 2021, vol. 25, issue 3, 181-187

Abstract: This study is devoted to highlighting the temporal trends and spatial variations in the concentration and growth of the major religious groups in India with special reference to the Sikh population. Such studies are gaining importance with the increasing penetration of both the religion and caste-composition in the political environment of the country. Although religious and caste interventions in politics are prevalent in all the elections, these become stronger as we move down from Parliamentary to Panchayat elections in which the voting pattern changes in favour of religion and caste groups. It has been observed that the share of Muslim population increased by 5.96% between 2001 and 2011, while it declined in the case of all other communities and the maximum decline (−8.02%) was noticed in the case of the Sikh population with the lowest share among all the major religious communities in India. The Sikh population also recorded the lowest growth rate of 8.42% against 24.65% and 16.76% witnessed by Muslims and Hindus respectively between2001 and 2011. The study is based on the religious data released by the Census of India.

Keywords: Religion; sikh; hindu; muslim; election; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0055

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