The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1940

COMPOSITION OF TUE MUSLIM COMMUNITY Let us turn to what Sir Theodore Morrison the champion of the separatist Mussalmans has got to say on the composition of the Muslim community of India : "Some of these Muslims are descendants of the Arabs Afghans and Turks who oirue down from the heightg of Central Asia in successive waves of conquest. [...] Comparing the Hindu and the Mussalruan communities to the two eyes of a beautiful damsel he said: " If you hit the one you hurt the other." He also insisted that all Indians who reside in India belonged to " one and the same nation.' UNITY IN ESSENTIAL M 1TTERE The ideal of nationalism is the outcome of several factors all operating together in multifarious ways and directions. [...] Speaking on the 10th March at the open session of the -Congress he is reported to have said that the East is the cradle of religions and philostiphies which have preached co-operation and peace and sought the welfare and happiness of all. [...] It was probably a bold veteran of many winters who had come far in advance of the rest of the community and not liking to keep all by himself he sought the congenial company of his next of kin for the Starling like the Myna is a member of the great family of Sturnidae and gregarious in habits. [...] The dread of the inhospitalale region did not turn his followers from him and the fugitive chief io gratitude entitled every one of the party Chilli or friend of the desert' Though his cup of misery see.ned full to the brim face dealt a little mercifully with him ; for Malik Hathi Balfich` the captain of the banditti.