Muslims in India At the opening of the 27th annual session of ithe All-India Muslim League on Friday, Mr. M. A. Jinnah, president, urged the division of India into autonomous national states, as being likely to contribute to a friendly settlement of the minorities question, "by reciprocal arrangements and adjustments between Muslim India land Hindu India." He made it quite clear that the League of which he is president would Inever "accept any arrangement resulting in a Hindu majority in the Government, and uttered the grave warning that any repetition of such Jo Government could only lead to civil war and the raising of private armies. 'The only justiieation which the Hindus have for any jelaim to dominance in any—Govern ent which might be formed' for India Is that they are in fact the largest. of the minorities, but against that there 1s the fact that if the other minorities are reckoned together they constitute a majority over the Hindus. Consequently not only is it inconeclv: fable that the Hindus should be given predominance but that they should be given any greater power than any other of the various entities into which the population is divided, The prospect of civil war in India in the event of a complete surrender to Hindu demands is something which cannot be viewed with equanimity, though it may be taken for granted that the Muslims, the warrior class, would undoubtedly resort to arms they fancied that their liberties were in any way threatened by the Hindus. The position adopted by the All-India Muslim League is [supported by the altitude of the All-India States [Muslim League, which insists that provinees in which there ig a Muslim majority should be grouped into independent states with effective mandatory safeguards for minorities. The proposal seems reasonable enough, but it is unlike-that the Hindus will agree. They are out for complete power as they have been all along, Jand if they secure it continued trouble in India may be confidently expected.
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