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Except for an occasional murder, quiet returned to stricken Calcutta last week, but fear lingered. The death toll of last fortnight's Hindu-Moslem rioting, which may never be finally totaled, exceeded 4,000. While the city's poor went hungry, food rotted on loading platforms. Both Hindus and Moslems, afraid of hostile neighbors, jammed the huge Howrah railway station, mobbed the trains...
...professionally for India's Hindu masses (255,000,000), so Mohamed Ali Jinnah speaks professionally for India's Moslems (92,000,000). Jinnah maintained that Hindu-Moslem unity was impossible. He insisted that, in a free India, autonomy should be granted to areas where Moslems are in the majority, and he called his doctrine Pakistan. Gandhi called Pakistan a perpetual vivisection of Mother India, held until last week that the whole Hindu-Moslem question should be postponed until independence is achieved...
Last week Gandhi suddenly reversed himself-or seemed to. He sent word to Jinnah that he was willing to accept the principle of Hindu-Moslem separation, let the people in mixed areas decide by plebiscite. It was not Pakistan, it was hedged with qualifications, but it was a momentous concession for Gandhi to make...
Punjab Province in India was curry-hot with religious conflicts and revolts against British rule until 1937, when moderate Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, member of a distinguished Moslem family, became Premier of the Punjab. By straightforward administration and sense-making pleas for Hindu-Moslem unity, he succeeded in uniting the major political parties of the Punjab's 28 millions-56% Moslems, 27% Hindu, 13% warrior Sikhs-into a coalition Government which brought internal peace to the Province and has raised 500,-ooo troops to fight the Axis. Last week, at Lahore, the fruitful work of Sir Sikander was ended...
...Moslems. C. R.'s belief in the possibility of Hindu-Moslem agreement became more than a hypothesis when the Moslem League's mouthpiece, Dawn, spoke up loudly on his behalf: "The political situation, bad as it is, would not have been worsened by Mr. Rajagopalachariar's meeting Mr. Gandhi. . . . The very idea of victory while holding India on a leash must be agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have...