@padamchen , your long post's section :
I agree to some of that and disagree to the rest.
The Muslim community in India is a sizable number but ghettoized. This has nothing to do with poverty. A lot of us are Middle Middle Class, so-called educated, but they live in ghettos, most probably because of safety concerns that will arise during possible riots. These are middle class ghettos but ghettos nonetheless. An indrawn community.
You pointed out the lack of leadership. The Indian Muslim community is unique in the sense that it hasn't largely seen leaders of the Leftist/Progressive tilt become popular among them, like, for example, the Ba'ath movement in Iraq and Syria.
As far as I know, the Urdu language used to be, in the pre-Partition days, a means of disseminating progressive ideas but later became regressive, mullah'fied because the middle-class hadn't bothered to live a life beyond the limiting "School-College-Job-Marriage-Children" cycle.
Though the Communist Party of India had four Muslims among its founders, in a later time there weren't born an Indian Jamal Abdul Nasser, an Indian Gaddafi etc.
Today, the Indian Muslim middle class is more recognized by the Tableeghi Jamaatis ( those irritating and terrorist-creating preachers ) than someone along the lines of Che Guevara.
