"Another aspect of Urdu-speaking Muslims, apart from their superiority complex, has been their attitude towards India where they had settled down on migration during the Muslim period. They never regarded themselves strictly Indians but as members of Millat-e-Islamia. The following couplet of Akbar Allahbadi is an illustration of this attitude: While we slave for food as clerks. Our hearts bleed for Persians and Turks. They even looked down upon everything Indian and were all praise for whatever was Arabic, Irani or Turani. They always regarded themselves as strangers in the land of idol-worshippers. This attitude is reflected in their literature, thinking and political life. In the opening lines of 'Shikwai Hindi', Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali says: Farewell Hindustan, land of eternal spring, For long have we, as foreign guests, stayed here."
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Abdulla Ahmed An Observation: Perspective of Pakistan https://books.google.com/books?id=6lI9AAAAMAAJ 1987 Tanzeem Publishers page=82
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