"[The separate electorates led enfranchised Muslims and members of other sections to] vote communally, think communally, listen only to communal election speeches, judge the delegates communally, look for constitutional and other reforms only in terms of more relative communal power, and express their grievances communally."
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Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Modern Islam in India (1943), p. 212. Quoted in Arun Shourie. “Falling Over Backwards.”
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