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“The ‘chilly effect’ of Gandhi’s comments ‘persisted throughout the Round Table Conference’ and for Jinnah it only confirmed his distrust of the Mahatma.† Henceforth, whenever Gandhi met the Muslim leadership in London, they would bring up a new and unexpected set of questions: Was India one nation or two? ‘Was Islam merely a religious minority, or were Muslims [a nation unto themselves?]’27
Sarojini Naidu had been chosen as one of only three women representatives at the Round Table Conferences, and she found the whole drama bitterly dissatisfying. ‘I have never attended anything more disappointing and dull in every way,’ she wrote to her daughters. ‘It is almost worse than the endless Unity and All-Party Conferences we have had ad nauseum in India!’ When Gandhi ‘discusses the second chamber, finance and franchise, he is less than convincing,’ she wrote. Indeed, for Sarojini, the only fun to be had was a rogue encounter with Charlie Chaplin, who she found to be ‘shy and quite charming’ and who, much to her amusement, Gandhi had ‘never heard”
― Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia