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Minority, means for the purposes of the study, an ethnic, religious or linguistic minority is a group numerically smaller than the rest of the population of the State to which it belongs and possessing cultural, physical or historical characteristics, a religion or a language different from those of the rest of the population (Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities Published by the Centre for Human Rights, Geneva) T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.