"What was the difference between Jinnah and the nationalist Muslims? While Jinnah wanted a separate state, the nationalist Muslims wanted the whole of India... The nationalist Muslims ... were generally no less hostile to the Hindus, or at least to Hinduism, than the Pakistan party."
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H.Dalwai, Muslim politics in secular india, 1968, p 62. also in Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". p 739-40
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