Summary
Many Indian Muslims have become sports heroes (the long-serving cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin, for instance), film stars, politicians (including the recent ex-president APJ Abdul Kalam) , academics , professional leaders, business tycoons or journalists. Indian Muslims complain that the state is insufficiendy secular because it does not ensure affirmative action for minorities; their opponents counter that a secular state cannot give special benefits to any one community.
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Minority Report
In August 1947, Pakistan was carved out of India to satisfy the demands of Indian Muslims for a separate homeland. But the areas that became West and East Pakistan (today's Bangladesh) contained only two-thirds of the subcontinent's...
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