The Indian Political Situation
Memorandum for Secretary of State for India (dated 28 January 1942)
Yet this fundamental issue has been
throughout ignored by the Congress Party which, in spite of efforts to please
the Moslem elements in its facade, is essentially a Hindu party in its
ingrained conviction that it is the natural heir to the British Government in
India and entitled to take over both control of legislative and executive
powers, unfettered by any limitations save such “safeguards” for the
“minorities” as it has professed to be willing to grant.
…Meanwhile, the experience of
Congress Government in the Provinces and of the centralised dictatorship of the
Congress “High command” finally decided the Moslems now increasingly coming
together in the Muslim League, to reject entirely any system of government for
India as a whole based on a Parliamentary majority executive.
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