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For two centuries tiny, remote Britain ruled India by the policy of divide and conquer. The differences between India's Hindus (256 million) and India's Moslems (92 million) were more than religious; they were almost organic. Says Moslem Dr. Aziz of the Hindus in E. M. Forster...
Permanent Minority? But Mohamed Ali Jinnah was uncompromising. At press interviews after the adjournment, he disapproved the Wavell Plan's proposal for parity between caste Hindus and Moslems in the new government. He charged that the Untouchables and Sikhs would always vote with the Hindus, thus putting the Moslems...
Hardest pill for the Congress party to swallow was the clause in the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21) fixing equal representation for Moslems and caste Hindus in the new Executive Council. Congress preferred organizational parity with the Moslem League; otherwise, it argued, its many Moslem members (e.g., President Azad) would...
The British Government offered an administrative bolus to its No. i political ward case-India. From his palace in New Delhi, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, broadcast a new proposal to break the country's three-year political deadlock and put her "on the road to self...
Watts had settled down to live out his span under the palms, took a Burmese wife, fathered half-caste children. When the Japs came he had elected to remain with his family; the enemy let him alone.