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318 tiations, both agreed that there should be a single centre for foreign affairs, defense and communications; that provinces should be given autonomy for all the rest, and that certain statutory guarantees should be given to minorities, to Muslims in particular. Soon after Mr Nehru, then president of the Congress, declared in a public speech that the Constituent Assembly was sovereign, and was bound with no restrictions: it may decide (by majority) whatever it liked. Later on when a transitory government was formed, the Muslim Finance Minister did not concede to certain demands of the Hindu Minister of Interior (Patel). Thereupon this latter took the initiative of proposing partition, and rallied both Nehru and Gandhi to his opinion, in spite of the great opposition of Azad. One can read between the lines, or one can guess, the argument of Patel: Muslims already constitue a third of the population in the country, and owing to conversions etc. their rate of growth is so high that in a generation or two they "menace" to become the absolute majority in the sub-continent. Through partition (and later forced "exchange" of the population of We-,t Pakistan), Bharat has reduced the number of its
Die Welt des Islams – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1961
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