Post Graduate Diploma in Dalit and Minorities Studies

The Jamia Milia Islamia offers Post Graduate Diploma in Dalit and Minorities
Studies to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

Dalit Movements in India
Framework and Approaches to Study of Dalit Movements
The Depressed Classes and Anti-caste Movements in the Colonial
Period
Dalit Movements in Post-colonial India
Issues and Problems Concerning Dalits

Minorities in India
I. Minorities – Concept, Definitions and Approaches, Pluralism and
Multiculturalism in the Socio-political Context

II. Minorities – Religious, Linguistic and Ethnic
Cultural and Religious Revivalism and Minorities
Marginalization of Religious Minorities – Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists,
Jews and Parsis

III. Minority and Conflicts in Modern India
National Integration – Secularism, Communalism, Religious Fundamentalism,
Politicization of Religion

IV. Protective Mechanisms
Constitutional Provisions and Minorities Rights
Commissions and Communities

Research Methodology
I. Social Science Research – Techniques, Scope and Approaches
Objectivity and Subjectivity
II. Problem Formulation, Hypothesis, Observatory, Participatory, Analytical
and Interpretive Methods
III. Research Design, Exploratory and Experimental, Handling of Sources –
Primary and Secondary
IV. Practical Research Techniques
Sampling, Interview, Questionnaire and Report Writing