Table Of ContentMUSLIM VISION OF SECULAR
INDIA: Destination and Roadmap
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An Approach Paper aimed at
1. Presenting a Muslim Perspective of India’s national goals and
policies; and
2. Developing a Comprehensive National Plan for Socioeconomic,
Ideological and Political Empowerment of Muslim Indians so
that they can play a meaningful role in the national and global
affairs
Dr. Javed Jamil
Mission Publications
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Author: Dr. Javed Jamil
Copyright: Mission Publications
First Edition 2016
All Right Reserved
(The views expressed in the book are the author’s own and the facts as
reported by him, which have been verified to the extent possible, and the
Publishers are not in any way liable for them.)
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Table of Contents
Preface
Report on release of “Muslim Vision of Secular India: Destination &
Roadmap”
Part A: Muslims Part of the Nation
Introduction
“Minority”, “Second Largest Majority” or/and “Part of Majority”?
Special Position
What has gone wrong?
The power game by the political parties
The game played by Muslim political leaders
The inefficient role played by the traditional religious scholars (Ulama)
The selfishness of Muslim intellectuals
Sachar, Mishra and Kundu: Partial Reports, Partial Recommendations,
Minimal Implementation
Limitations of Sachar Committee Report
Summary of Recommendations
Follow-up action taken
SACHAR COMMITTEE REPORT & STATUS OF FOLLOW UP
ACTION (as on 31.01.2013) (Provided by the Ministry of Minority
Affairs)
Analysis
Time to reverse the tide
Realise their real potential
Objectives to be achieved
Ultimate Aims of Muslim Vision
Changes in Government Policies and Economic Ideology Required
Radical steps required to drastically reduce Economic Disparity
Social Evils in India
Right to Health
Part B: Empowerment of Muslims: Holistic Approach
I: Ideological Empowerment of Muslims
Religious Education – Applied Islamics
Mosques the Islamic Centres
Unity of Muslims
The Fourth Estate: Let Muslims also own it
Countering Negative Campaign
Terrorism versus Tyranny
Radical West much bigger threat to peace than “Radical Islam”
Recent anti-Muslim campaigns in India
Stop being apologetic and defensive
II: Social Empowerment
Modern Education to be remodelled and expanded
Health Infrastructure
Urban Development
Rural Development
Reservations for Muslims
Empowerment of Youth
Empowerment of Women within Islamic framework
NGO Sector
Minority Welfare Schemes of Ministry of Minority Affairs
III: Economic Empowerment of Muslims
Scope of Islamic Economics in India
Dynamic Theory of Economics: Wealth Generation
“Peoples’ Corporate India”
Economic Relations with Muslim Countries
Islamic Finance
Blueprint of the Action plan for establishing “Peoples’ Corporate India”
dominated by but not exclusively Muslims. \
Management of Awqaf Properties
IV. Political Empowerment
Give Muslims Role in Governance
Delimitation of Seats
Proactive rather than reactive politics needed
Security Issues: Psychological, Physical and Social
Part C: Roadmap
Need for a National Level Organisation of Muslims
Goal
AIMS
Secretariat
Consultative Committee
Last Word
The man behind the book
Theory of Economic Fundamentalism
Peace Economics
Universal Theory of Relativity
Jamil’s Islamic thought: Applied Islamics
A Man of Impact
Works Cited
Table of Figures
Table 1 National rural and urban poverty rates by religious groups
Table 2 Urban poverty rates among Muslims vis-à-vis overall poverty rates
in major states in the country
Table 3 Relative poverty and poverty rate difference between Muslims and
overall poverty in urban areas in selected states of India
Table 4 Poverty among Muslims in Mumbra
Table 5 Indian Government's direct tax collection in 2009-10 (Apr-Mar)
Table 6 List of States of India by projected own tax revenues of their
governments
Table 7 Massacres After 15 August 1947 (Independent India)
Table 8 Casualties in communal clashes during the period 1968-80
Table 9 Wars in last 150 years
Table 10 Deaths related to Naxalite violence
Table 11 Violence involving NDFB
Table 12 Attacks attributed to National Democratic Front of Bodoland
(NDFB)
Table 13 Fastest growing industries in the world
Table 14 List of Assembly constituencies with high population of Muslims
but reserved for SCs and constituencies with high population of SCs but are
unreserved
Table 15 Year-wise funds released by Department of Justice
Figure 1 Distribution of total liquid net worth in the world per person in
2012
Preface
We are not necessarily what others think of us. They have their own
coloured glasses tinged with their own biases, ideological proclivities,
perceptions and interests. We, Muslims, must learn to view ourselves
through our own glasses. The only condition is that these glasses should be
able to correct our myopic as well as hypermetropic vision. The problem
with Muslims has been that for too long now they have been judging
themselves and determining their goals and priorities on the basis of what
others think or decide. We have forgotten that we have our own strengths
and weaknesses which are often vastly different from the strengths and
weaknesses that others find in us. We have our own ideological
foundations, our own goals and our own ways to reach the destination. We
have our own vision of the world which unfortunately we have stopped
expressing and implementing. The result is that we are being perpetually
kept by certain forces – external as well as internal, in an unrelenting grip of
inferiority complex. We are being made to keep believing that we are a lost
community having hardly any appreciable strength and that our future is
doomed unless we follow a certain course of action and toe a certain line.
We have to learn to reject without fail such an attitude of deception towards
us. This however does not mean that we must reject others’ views about us
altogether. Criticism often provides a unique opportunity to re-examine and
refresh our approach; and if we find the criticism unwarranted it can
engender a new vigour in our hearts and spirits. We must learn to make a
systematic analysis of what others say and deal with the issues without
being overawed or apologetic.
Indian Muslim Community is no different. In recent years, the community
and its leaders seem to have forgotten to see anything beyond what Sachar
committees are showing them and plan what Rangnath Mishra commissions
are planning for them. There have been initiatives at small scales in
different fields. But there has been hardly any national plan and national
effort on the part of Indian Muslim Community to determine their own
course of action, enlisting the governmental support where it is required and
engaging in their own endeavours where they can and must help
themselves. This work is perhaps the first of its kind as it approaches the
issues of Muslims in a comprehensive way just as the Planning
Commissions do for the nation and from the perspective of Muslim way of
thinking. Muslims are no ordinary minority. They are not even a significant
minority. They are about 180 million people. These numbers demand a big
planning followed by a big effort. This approach paper endeavours to view
the whole spectrum of Muslim life in the country.
I have taken care not to present Muslims as a community that cannot simply
survive without help from outside. I have purposefully tried to present them
as a social unit, which has huge potential not only to make themselves a
dynamic, vibrant and prosperous community but also a people that can and
must play a meaningful role in national and international affairs. They have
a strong belief system and a religion that talks of “promoting good and
campaign against evils” for the peaceful existence of the whole mankind.
They have their own perspective with which they view the world. This
Approach Paper presents their viewpoint regarding various aspects of the
system, which is in force within the country and outside. The quality of
system is extremely important because changing individuals or society at
large is not going to deliver if the system is not right. A good system must
be peace-promoting and health-protective and must guarantee security to all
the sections of the people. The system must be in a position to assert itself
and set the things right whenever they go wrong.
I know there will be people who will object to the approach adopted in this
paper. Some of them will criticise it because of their preconceived notions
developed on account of the influence of the existing ideologies. Some may
argue that it is not desirable to change the course of history and Muslims
must only try to benefit from what exists. I personally do not believe in
continuing with the status quo and feel that ideological and social
campaigns must be run to seek changes for making a healthier, purer and
more peaceful world. There is no reason why we should endorse anything
not good for society at large. We cannot simply become pawns in the hands
