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"11. In view of the above order there can be no doubt that a Muslim can claim the benefit extended to Backward communities on the basis that he is a Muslim provided the family income is Rs. 10,000/- or less per annum. Further, a person belonging to 'Darvesu' tribes can claim the benefits provided for Backward tribe without reference to family income. To this extent there is no dispute. But, the crucial question for consideration in this case is who among Muslims, which is a single community can be regarded as belonging to 'Darvesu' tribe. The answer to the question can be found only from the report of the Havanur Commission on which the Government order is based. The relevant part of the evidence given before the Havanur Commission by leading members of the Muslims community, which was accepted by the commission reads :
"Muslims have no social privileges" or disabilities amongst themselves.
Muslims are homogeneous group without any divisions. There are no separate mosques and no separate idgas. Marriage rites and funeral rites are the same for all. Muslims do not have any traditional occupations. They are following all sorts of occupations. No occupation is considered either low or high. There are no hereditary occupations. A butcher by profession has the same religious and social rights as a priest has in Muslim community. The daughter of a priest can marry the son of a scavenger without any inhabitation, and both of them shall have the same status make mention about the backwardness of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes. Those tribes are very backward and they are akin to scheduled castes and scheduled status. Muslim community is a perfect society which has accorded similar rights to one and all. The touch or a sight of even a scavenger is not considered by Muslims as polluting. A scavenger or a sweeper can act as a priest in the marriages, the only qualification being that he should have studied the Kuran and known the procedural aspect.
xx xx xx xx Although there is no caste system as such in the Muslim social order, unfortunately, the community was divided and stratified into hereditary, professional and functional groups, following professions which are most un-remunerative and uneconomic, which has relegated them to lowest strata of society of the state, economically and educationally.
The conventional idea of high and low peculiar to Hindu Society is unknown to Muslim Society. The groups amongst the Muslims could be readily identified by their occupations or professions. The opinion of some members of the Mysore Backward Classes Committee (1961), that only a few sections amongst the Muslims should be considered as socially backward, is not correct.
xx xx xx Witness volunteers : In our reply to the questionnaire we inadvertently omitted to make a mention about the backwardness of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes. Those tribes are very backward and they are akin to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. They should be treated separately and liberal help should be extended to them."

Thus it may be seen that the Muslim Society unlike Hindu Society is not divided into various castes and communities. Neither there are castes among Muslims nor there is any gradation. The entire Muslim community constitutes one homogeneous unit and there is no question of high and low among them. However, there was a plea to the effect that such of the Muslims who belonged to Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic tribes are akin to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the matter of backwardness and they required liberal assistance from the State.