The making of the nation: Part 5, in Mumbai

From the archive record

The Muslim League led by a Bombay based barrister Muhammad Ali Jinnah propagated the theory that Hindus and Muslims were two nations and could therefore never live together. Gandhi and Congress opposed this idea vehemently to them secularism had been the linchpin of the freedom movement and India's secularism had its roots in its civilization. "Secularism you are using it as a word, as a concept. It is obviously a modern concept but this society has basically rested on this kind of a consensus on mutual adjustment on mutual accommodation so secularism was an idea as it was imposed on the above but again it was done so because people were sensitive to the fact that this society rests operates on an inter community network". Between 1937 and 1939 Congress leaders repeatedly met Jinnah to con