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Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday June 28 1942

1942

" It is for this reason " they say at the end of a revealing description of the the British arm of the Triangle ' " that the Congress has always thrown out the challenge that the first condition for a speedy settlement of the Hindu Muslim differences is that the third party of the triangle should withdraw unconditionally and give the two parties an honest chance to face each other's fears and de [...] The authors have used the language of sociology and discussed in separate chapters the political the sociological and the " irrational factors " of the communal problem but it will be found that the three are but the branches of the same poison-tree and the facts therefore of one chapter run into those of the other chapters. [...] the working of the British policy in India with the deliberate purpose of playing one community against the other demonstrates to the hilt the truth of the last sentence in the foregoing extract. [...] That brings us to the brilliant chapters on the two nationalisms in India — the communal nationalism of the two rivals Muslim League and the Hindu Mahasabha and the democratic nationalism of the Indian National Congress -- and the chapters on the Hindu Communalism and the movement for Pakistan. [...] Both have no nobler urge than that of power politics the one deluding itself with the will o' the wisp of a Hindudom meaning the maintenance protection and promotion of the Hindu race Hindu culture and Hindu civilisation and the advancement of the glory of Hindu rashtra and the other looking forward to the recreation of the exploded concetion of a Muslim theocracy on the strength of meth
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Pages
8
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120270
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Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday June 28 1942
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