Three academics have examined in detail the problem of accommodating minority rights within the framework of the country’s laws and institutions. This is a complex issue, because it is interlinked with minorities’ cultural distinctiveness along with their socioeconomic disadvantages and backwardness. So the laws and institutions of governance are expected to respond to not only the demands of cultural, religious, linguistic minorities but also harmonise the interests and demands of groups that suffer from socio-economic disadvantages and backwardness. This study appropriately focuses its attention on the complex story of institutions of governance that attempt to reconcile the cultural distinctiveness of