Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
Gandhi, Mahatma. Harijan. Navajivan Publishing House, 9 Aug. 1942, p. 261.
He was arguing to reserve some states as Muslim states by designation. 7 years later he would insist on a separate homeland. India was partitioned and Pakistan and Bangladesh resulted but at a fearful cost of tens of millions of lives.
an old term for Muslims The Muslims were present in every state if India. Jinnah’s concept of nationhood is very Islamic in that Muslims are united even if they be in different states of nations. He was arguing to reserve some states as Muslim states by designation. 7 years later he would insist on a separate homeland. India was partitioned and Pakistan and Bangladesh resulted but at a fearful cost of tens of millions of lives.
This quotation shows Washington's amazing tolerance for the times.
This mode of national definition is characteristic of many nations of Europe as well.
Magh Bahul Ekadashi. To this day Golwalker is one of the most revered of the Hindu nationalists. This is the kind of intolerance that Indian Muslims faced amongst the most extreme Hindu’s. The possibility that this would become a reality was one of the great motivators for partition of India on the part of the Muslims. The irony is that the Muslim nation that was created—Pakistan—follows this doctrine exactly, only they substitute Islam for the Hindu culture. With the exception of a few Muslim nations, most of Islam follows the intolerance that the Hindu extremists would have followed. Ironically, “Hindu” India still has many millions of Muslims and they are given full citizenship and more democratic freedom and rights than Muslims have in almost all Islamic countries with the exception of Turkey.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
