It was India's historic destiny that many historic races and cultures should flow to her, finding a home in her hospitable sooil, and that many a caravan should find rest here ... Tleven hundred yeaars of common history [of Islam and Hinduismm] have enriched India with our common achievements. Our languaages, our poetry, our literature, our cculture, our art, our dress, our manners and customs, the unnumerable happenings of our daily life, everything bears the stamp of our joint endeavour ... These thousand years of our joint life [have] moulded us into a common naitonality ... Whether we like it or not, we have now become an Indian nation, united and indivisible. No fantasy or artificial scheming to separate and divide can break this unity.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
India After Gandhi - pg. 41
MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD, CONGRESS Presidential Address, 1940
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