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Beyond the Margins: Gender, Faith, and Sustainable Development Among Muslim Women in Telangana's Urban and Rural Landscapes

Author(s) Dr. Mohammad Ghouse
Country India
Abstract Muslim women in Telangana occupy a distinctive position at the intersection of gender, religious-minority status, and regional development disparity, yet remain under-examined in mainstream development scholarship. This paper investigates the educational, economic, health, and political standing of Muslim women across Telangana's urban and rural landscapes, drawing on National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) data, the state-commissioned Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Socio-Economic and Educational Conditions of Muslims in Telangana, and the wider academic literature. Adopting an intersectional framework that reads gender alongside faith and locational disadvantage, the study situates its findings within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 4, SDG 5, and SDG 8. Findings show that Muslim women face compounded disadvantage in literacy, workforce participation, financial autonomy, and maternal healthcare relative to women of other communities, with rural Muslim women experiencing the sharpest deprivation. Urban Muslim women, though comparatively better positioned, remain constrained by limited decision-making power over household income. The paper argues that faith-based identity interacts with patriarchal norms and structural neglect to produce a distinct pattern of marginalisation that generic gender or minority policies fail to capture, and proposes community-anchored, data-driven interventions for inclusive development.
Keywords Muslim women; gender and development; Telangana; Sustainable Development Goals; intersectionality; urban-rural divide; minority welfare
Published In Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023
Published On 2023-08-02
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