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Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday January 5 1947

1947

In the evening after completing the day's work the Hindus retire to their Hindustan and the Muslims to their Pakistan ! Thus business is transacted without people of one community entering the region of the other. [...] When the Government of the land is in the hands of such tried patriots who will be trusted to hold the interests of the millions as their first-care then alone can we claim to have a National Government and " Nationalization " will then ensure that the interests of the masses will be taken care of. [...] What a cruel experiment on human beings it is I Similarly in the Western zone the Sikhs in the Punjab and the Pathans of the Frontier are forced into a group with the Punjab and Sind ! And in the face of all this the British Prime Minister has the temerity to declare that the British do not wish to force any constitution on a large -body of people against its will ! There is yet another sinist [...] the Ministers and the Parlimentary Secretaries who had come to Noakhali had been proclaiming that for the sake of their honour and the influence of Islam they were anxious that the refugees should return to their villages and feel perfectly ' and serene in the midst of the majority of Muslims living there. [...] The working out of the Policy Except for the first four years when only the mother tongue or the language of the province will be taught arrangements will be made for the teaching of Hindustani in both the scripts throughout the period of schooling.
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120270
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Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday January 5 1947
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