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every (Hindu woman) learns the use of fire-arms, so that she can
fight for her honour. But O men! How dare you face your
womenfolk? If you have any stuff in you, you should know how
to keep the enemy at bay. Needless to add that the enemy
referred to was no other than the Muslim. He ended in the same
strain: Gentle folk, so long as you fear rascals, they will continue
to be impudent. They only dread the big stick. Give them a hard
fight This is the first of Swaraj.
Lahore Resolution
done and, therefore, my appeal to you, young and old men and
women, is that we must work.
"It is now more than a thousand years that the bulk of the
Muslims have lived in a different world, in a different society, in
a different philosophy and a different faith. Can you possibly
Muslim League, Jinnah and the Hindu Mahasabha: 177
compare this with that nonsensical talk that mere change of faith
is no ground for a demand for Pakistan? Can't you see the
fundamental difference? Now, therefore, I do not think really
that any honest man can possibly dispute the fact that the
Muslims are a nation by themselves, distinctly separate from the
Hindus. Suppose they are, and I have no doubt in my mind.
There are hundreds and hundreds of Hindus who honestly think
so and there are hundreds of Hindus who believe in this and who
have come to me and who have often said that this is the only
solution, viz., the Lahore Resolution. Therefore, it is no use
arguing this point any further. But how is the propaganda carried
on against it? The propaganda is carried on and, as I have told
you, I have tried to understand the arguments against it, without
any prejudice as far as it is possible for a human being to do so.
What is the argument?
The goal of the All India Muslim League is: we want the
establishment of completely independent states in the north
western and eastern zones of India with full control of the
defence, foreign affairs, communication, customs, currency,
exchange etc. 94
He makes it quite clear that 1 stand for my nation and the Hindu
domination'. He says in clear language that in this subcontinent
'Hindu raj must be established; that if the Muslims do not
behave, they will annex Afghanistan and carry the frontier to
Hindukush. The sooner the Muslims realize this position the
better for them. The Muslims cannot get one iota more
concession than as minority.' That is quite clear. All I say is that
Dr. Moonje, Mr. Savarkar and their colleagues are running
amuck and they are doing the greatest possible harm to the
Hindus and the least harm to the Muslims. 1 am glad that they
make it clear, not like the Congress, finessing and concealing
their real thoughts and playing in diplomatic language, none of
that. And I am glad to say that neither the Congress nor anybody
else now, thank God, can fool the Muslims.
Cripps Offer
Rajaji Formula
The year 1944 like the year 1942 was quite unpleasant
for the anti-Pakistan forces. In that year the political develop-
ments such as the Acharia-Gandhi Formula and Gandhi-Jinnah
negotiations, 119 which in principle accepted the Pakistan scheme,
greatly dismayed the Mahasabha it allies and supporters; the
Sikhs were approached to join anti-Pakistan front. 120 In a press
interview on 5 January, 1944 the League Leader declared that
the Muslim oppose all the objectives of the Hindu organizations
aiming at torpedoing the Pakistan Scheme. He criticized the
Hindu Mahasabha saying that the Hindu Mahasabha has gone
one better at Amritsar and has clearly shown that they are for the
establishment of a Vedic Hindu government over this entire
subcontinent. 121 Moonje encouraged Vedic customs. 122
Simla Conference
Elections of 1945-46
was the head of the Mission. The main task of the Mission was
to secure an agreement between the two principal parties - the
Congress and the League; however, the Mission members held
wide range of negotiations with the Indian leaders and political
parties, etc. A Conference [the Second Simla Conference] also
took place in Simla (5-12 May).
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