INDIAN MOSLEMS
REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO HINDUS
(Rec. 11 p.m.) BOMBAY, August 14. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, leader of the Moslem League, interviewed, stated that the Moslems were agreeable to join a provisional government for the duration, provided:— (1) They exercised an equal voice with the Hindus.
(2) Britain agreed to concede Moslem autonomy after the war. “Congress is not only holding a pistol at the British Government, but also holding a pistol at me,” he said. “We hope the British Government will not make concessions to Congress by sacrificing the Moslems. That would be the last straw for the Moslems. We will not submit to any central government with a Hindu majority. We envisage the separation of Moslem India from Hindu India. Sind, Baluchistan, the Punjab and the North-west Frontier provinces would form a Moslem state or Dominion and Bengal and Assam would form another.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24823, 15 August 1942, Page 5
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145INDIAN MOSLEMS Southland Times, Issue 24823, 15 August 1942, Page 5
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