The Indian Journal of Social Work September 1947

Brahman the ultimate Reality is not only in the priest but also in the Chandala the outcaste the dog and inanimate nature. [...] If the Mulsim today will have nothing to do with the Hindu is it not partly because the Hindu with all his caste taboos and prohibitions shuts himself off in self-complacent pride from the Muslim ? The Muslim demand for a sovereign state completely cut off from Hindudom seems thus to be but the reflection in the political sphere of the ostracism which the Muslim has suffered lately at the hands o [...] This is what has happened in the case of the Muslims as over against the Hindus and to a lesser extent in the case of the ' untouchables '.versus the touchables ' the non-Brahmins' versus the Brahmins the Dravidians versus the Aryans. [...] It should therefore be the responsibility of those engaged in education through the teaching of geography history literature song art and religion and through lectures travel if possible and organisation of relief to areas in distress to instil into the minds of both young and old alike love of country and a feeling of cultural unity with people in the rest of the land whatever their [...] But the fundamental reason for the failure of a good percentage of our Indian marriages is that the very idea of our insttution of marriage rests on a false basis— namely the superiority of the husband.