In Bengal, Lt. Col. U.N. Mukherjee, in his book A Dying Race, concluded: We Hindus are most ridiculously, most contemptibly ignorant, we have no idea about what is going on around us. Others are not quite so ignorant . . . How do the two communities stand? The Mohammedans have a future and they believe in it. We Hindus have no conception of it. Time is with them . . . time is against us. At the end of the years, they count their gains, we calculate our losses. They are growing in number, growing in strength, growing in wealth, growing in solidarity . . . we are crumbling to pieces. They look
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