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Hamid Dalwai Quotes

1932–1977 India

Hamid Umar Dalwai (20 September 1932 – 3 May 1977) was a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist and Marathi language writer in Maharashtra, India.

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We have to insist on a common personal law for all citizens of India.

Muslim politics, p.106-8, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014)

Leaders of secular parties... have so far made no serious effort to understand the true nature of Muslim politics in India.

It is quite true that partition far from proving to be a solution to the Muslim problem has only aggravated it. But it is simply not true that there was a happy solution waiting round the corner only if partition had been avoided. For the Muslims demanded parity as the price for remaining in a politically united India and surely this was an impossible demand.

The unceremonious exit of Mr. M.C. Chagla from her Cabinet and the relaxation of the rule prohibiting polygamy among Muslim employees of the Central Government are but two examples of the concessions she [Indira Gandhi] is making to Muslim communalism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hamid Dalwai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.