Survey respondents were urban middle-class Hindus and Muslims

Evidence

The study had a sample of 270 respondents. Of these, 167 were Hindus and 103 were Muslims. The Hindu sample had 98 (59%) male respondents and 69 (41%) female respondents. Muslim sample included 45 (44%) males and 58 (56%) female respondents. Hindus had a mean age of 33.07 and Muslims a mean age of 30.6. Most respondents were literate and their monthly income was more than `30,000 per month. More Hindus (37%) were born in villages compared to Muslims (17%), but were now city dwellers. β€” R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi, When the Advantaged Feel Victimised, 33

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the reader’s cross-national test: a sample limited to literate urban middle-class respondents raises the same demographic-selection caveat that plagues claims about dominant-group victimhood anywhere. β€” connects to: Canadian Hindu and Muslim samples scored more authoritarian and prejudiced than Jewish participants β€” Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2173

Broader Connections