Economic and social marginalization are interlinked, this can be said on the basis of these points:

(a) As discussed in the chapter the minority groups like Muslims in our country have less access in terms of occupation, houses, piped water etc.

(b) Muslims have low standard of living as compared to Hindu as they are working in the unorganised sector. This is because of lack of education due to which they find it difficult to get both public as well as private sector jobs.

(c) As they are economically backward, they fail to attain a higher status in Indian society.