While hard to hold on to in the heat of competitive politics, this truth could have been brought home to all Punjabis by the Congress. However, the Punjab Congress remained too Hindu and too urban to do this. For the failure of the Punjab Congress to grow into a party of all Punjabis, Gandhi and the Congress’s central leadership must be assigned some responsibility. The Congress’s failure to retain Fazl-i-Husain was the biggest evidence of its limitations. The anti-feudal sentiment of the Congress Left combined with the anti-Muslim sentiment of the Congress Right to block a possible
...more
