Questions and Concerns of Muslim Indians.

What are the principal concerns of Muslim Indians today? 
Which of the following is most important?

·         Politics

·         Employment, economic status, and welfare

·         Public services

·         Security

·         Rule of law

·         State institutions

·         Religious freedom

·         Culture

·         Attitudes of non-Muslims

·         Issues within the community, including varieties of opinion and debates

What are the main concerns in these areas?

Can these concerns be answered through existing institutional, political, and social

channels? If so, which channels? If not, what are the alternatives?

How does the Muslim experience vary between regions?

Demographic trends among Muslim Indians

• How are Muslim localities and population centers changing?

• Where are Muslims moving within India?

• Economic, political, and cultural impacts of migration overseas

Politics

• Is there a unified Muslim voice in Indian politics?

• What are the main ideas in strategies for Muslim empowerment?

• What coalitions with non-Muslims have been tried, and which have worked?

Economics

• What is the state of employment opportunity?

     In the public sector?

     In the private sector?

• What is the fate of artisans?

• What other business concerns are there in the Muslim community?

• What is the state of the informal sector?

• Are there concerns about the availability of credit to Muslims?

• What issues of discrimination in employment or business opportunity are of concern?

Security and rule of law

• Mob violence against Muslims

• Role of the police

• Role of the courts

• Problems within the community

Education

• What concerns are there about educational opportunity?

• What concerns are there about educational quality?

• Are there concerns about anti-Muslim bias in curriculum and instruction?

• What are evolving attitudes to education in the Muslim community?

Gender

• What trends and developments are seen in female education and employment of women?

• How significant a concern is the status of women?

Leadership and institutions in the Muslim Indian community

• Who are leaders and opinion shapers?

• Who speaks for the Muslim community?

• What are the respective roles and importance of religious, political, and intellectual

activists?

• What are the significant divisions within the community?

Culture, identity, intellectual, and ideological trends

• Religion, caste, class, regional, and language identities

• Urdu education and press

• Uniform Civil Code and Personal Law

• Sharia in a non-Muslim majority society

• The Ummah

• Recent trends in thinking about fundamentalism, militancy, and political violence