"I am English by education, Muslim by culture and Hindu merely by accident."
— Jawaharlal Nehru

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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This quote was falsely attributed to Nehru by the Hindu Mahasabha leader, N. B. Khare, in "The Angry Aristocrat", N. B. Khare in A Study of Nehru, Rafiq Zakaria (ed.), 1960. — No such passage exists in Nehru's autobiography or any other text.