Around 90% of India's population are non-Muslem. India's success is in spite of it's Muslim minority. A large percentage of the violence in India is perpetrated by it's small minority Muslim population.
"However, pessimists might reply that it is the memory and very real threat of intercommunal violence, from which the Muslims must emerge the overall losers because they are so much in the minority, that keeps freedom alive in India and Muslims loyal to, or at least compliant with, the democratic order. If they scented weakness in the Indian state, they—or rather the Islamists among them—would go on the offensive.".