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The U. P. Congress and ‘Hindu Unity’: Untouchables and the Minority Question in the 1930s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2005

WILLIAM GOULD
WILLIAM GOULD
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Abstract

In a letter to Sir Samuel Hoare in September 1932, on the eve of his ‘fast unto the death’ against the principle of separate electorates for untouchables, Gandhi wrote:For me religion is one in essence, but it has many branches and if I, the Hindu branch, fail in my duty to the parent trunk, I am an unworthy follower of that one indivisible, visible religion…. My nationalism and my religion are not exclusive, but inclusive and they must be so consistently with the welfare of all life.

Type
Research Article
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 845 - 860
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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