BharatNotes Exclusion
noun (uncountable and countable)Usage in a UPSC answer
The Sachar Committee's identification of Muslims' educational and economic exclusion from mainstream institutions prompted the Ministry of Minority Affairs to design multi-sectoral interventions under the 'Multi-sectoral Development Programme for Minority-Concentrated Districts' to reverse documented patterns of social exclusion.
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Word Family
exclude (verb), excluded (adjective), exclusive (adjective), exclusively (adverb), inclusivity (antonymic noun)
Root
Latin excludere = to shut out (ex- = out + claudere = to close, shut); -ion = process/state
Etymology
From Latin exclusio (a shutting out), from excludere. The root claudere (to shut/close) also gives include, conclude, and preclude. The word entered English via Old French by the 15th century. The sociological concept of 'social exclusion' was developed in French discourse in the 1970s (René Lenoir, Les exclus, 1974) and adopted into EU policy vocabulary and then global development discourse through the 1990s, becoming a central analytic in Indian planning from the Ninth Five-Year Plan onward.
Memory Hook
EX-CLUS-ion: ex (out) + claudere (to close/shut). Exclusion = shutting someone out by closing the door on them. Visualise a door being slammed shut with someone on the outside — that closing (claus) against them (ex) is exclusion.
Seen in UPSC Question Papers
- Mains 2014 · GS2 · 12.5 marks — Social Justice
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