Mahommedali Currim Chagla citations

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Mahommedali Currim Chagla: Citations en anglais

“I am a Hindu because I trace my ancestry to my Aryan forefathers.”

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M. C. Chagla

Quoted by H.P. Sharma: This land of Aryans, Pioneer, 21.12.1989, quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 363

“In the true sense, we are all Hindus although we may practise different religions. … It is the distinction between Hindus and non-Hindus that has created all the trouble in this country and has even led to the partition of our motherland. … If the distinction were to go then there will be no conflict between Hindus and non-Hindus.”

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M. C. Chagla

Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 363

“I appeal to the Muslim community … to join the national mainstream…. What we want is that all of us… should … feel and think as Indians and should not get into separate compartments.”

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M. C. Chagla

Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 363

“To say that the BJP is communal is absolutely absurd and without any basis.”

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M. C. Chagla

Speech at BJP Plenary Session, quoted also in L.K. Advani: Presidential Address, Plenary Session (1995), and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.554