India: A Million Mutinies Now - pg. 395

Just days away from the comforts of Calcutta, he is among people to whom the wider world is unknown; who are without the means of understanding this world; people who after centuries of foreign invasions still cannot protect or defend themselves; people wo - Pandy or Sikh, porter or camp-following Hindu merchant - run with high delight to aid the foreigner to overcome their brethren. That idea of 'brethren' - an idea so simple to Russell that the word is used by him with clear irony - is very far from the people to whom he applies it. The Muslims would have some idea of the unity of their faith; but that idea would always be qualified by the despotism of their rulers; and the Muslims would have no obligations to anyone outside their faith. The Hindus would have no loyalty except to their clan; they would have no higher idea of human association, no general idea of the responsibility of man to his fellow. And because of that missing large idea of human association, the country works blindly on, and all the bravery and skills of its people lead to nothing.