Protection of cultural and educational rights of minorities under the constitution of India - An analytical stud

Constitution of India swears in the majesty of Rule of Law in order to establish the principle of equality before law and equal protection before law in the governance of the country. In laying down the basic and fundamental law in the country, the Constitution guarantees justice-social, economic and political to all its citizens irrespective or religion, race, language, caste etc. Every person or persons, as an individual or a group shall be protected in enjoying the respective rights guaranteed under the Constitution. Indian society is composed of various linguistic, religious and cultural and economic groups. But Constitution is based on the faith that these diversities will not in any way imperil the unity that of the country. The Indian society lacks homogeneity in so far as there exists these religious, cultural, linguistic groups. Keeping in view the existence of groups found by ties of race, religion, language and script, the architects of our Constitution providing for a plurality of groups co-existing with each other on the basis of mutual respect and confidence, introduced certain provisions in the Constitution to protect the interest of those individual groups, based on religion, culture and language. In protection of interest of certain groups taking into consideration the peculiarity of their individual heritage and culture, one main problem that is to be faced in the protection of Cultural and Educational rights of the independent groups which are generally termed as 'minorities'. The problem of minorities is hang-over from the long past in India remaining as complicated as ever. These 'minority' groups whether based on religion, language or culture intend to preserve and conserve their own language, script or culture through the educational institution of their own for their distinct identity. The framers of our Constitution in their wisdom, keeping in mind the principle that in a democratic set up the minority should, in no case, be suppressed or persecuted but be allowed to develop their peculiar characteristic features with full freedom, provided some special safeguards along with other guaranteed rights to the minorities for the protection of their cultural and educational rights in the Constitution. Having regard to such circumstances, it is felt that there is scope for detailed study on the subject which needs restatement and fresh evolution. The scope of this present work has been extended to the assessment and critical analysis...