“Other Milli (i. e. of the Muslim nation) resolutions include a call for separate electorates (MPs elected by joint electorates are denounced as “lackeys of the Hindus”) and the creation of autonomous states in Muslim-majority areas.”

—  Koenraad Elst

2000s, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001)

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