AH.com Challenge: Superpower India, With A Twist!

Your challenge is to have all of South Asia (define this as you wish) unified as a super or hyperpower state by the year 2009, with a POD no earlier then 1500 and no later then 1700. However, it must also be at least 51% Muslim by 2009. How do we achieve this?
 
Lets say that Aurangzeb isn't hellbent on expanding the Mogul Empire into Southern India, and then he gives the throne to his eldest son. This ends the war of succession after is death, so the Mogul Empire is much more stable. His successor then Pulls a Meiji, and makes the Mogul Empire a formidable enough force that the Europeans think twice about expanding into India. Slowly, the Moguls unite the Indian Subcontinent, and reign to this day.
 
Lets say that Aurangzeb isn't hellbent on expanding the Mogul Empire into Southern India, and then he gives the throne to his eldest son. This ends the war of succession after is death, so the Mogul Empire is much more stable. His successor then Pulls a Meiji, and makes the Mogul Empire a formidable enough force that the Europeans think twice about expanding into India. Slowly, the Moguls unite the Indian Subcontinent, and reign to this day.
Obligatory Gurkani Alam reference here...
 
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