In his introduction to the resolution, Upadhyaya proclaimed that in the recent centuries, India’s unity was often tested because of the constant reiteration of its diversity which prevented its citizens from being knitted into one nation on the basis of a single or homogenous cultural tradition. Unlike the Hindu Mahasabha which rejected Muslims as part of the Indian mainstream, Upadhyaya referred to them and the Christians as ‘different parts of the same body.’
