"I am sorry to hear of the increasing friction between Hindus and Muhammedans in the N.W.F.P. and the Punjab. One hardly knows what to wish for; unity of ideas and action would be very dangerous politically, divergence of ideas and collision are administratively troublesome. Of the two the latter is the least risky, though it throws anxiety and responsibility upon those on the spot where the friction exists."
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Lord George Hamilton. Lord Hamilton in a letter he wrote to Viceroy Elgin in 1897. R.C. Majumdar, British Paramountcy and Indian renasisance Vol X, part II p 325. quoted in The Tragic Story of Partition (1982)
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