If we go by the lessons of history we have to accept that the goal of Hindu-Muslim unity is a mirage. When Muslims first entered India, they looted the country, destroyed the temples, broke the idols, raped the women and heaped innumberable indignities on the people of this country. Today it appears that such noxious behaviour has entered the bone-marrow of Muslims. Unity can be achieved among equals. In view of the big gap between the cultural level of Hindus and Muslims which can hardly be bridged, I am of the view that Hindu-Muslim unity which could not be achieved during the last thousand years will not materialise during the ensuing thousand years. If we are to drive away the English people depending upon this elusive capital of Hindu-Muslim unity, I would rather advise its postponement.
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Shri Sarat Chandra Chatterji in October 1926. Attributed to S.C. Chattopadhyay by A. Ghosh in, Making of the Muslim Psyche in Devendra S. (ed.), Politics of Conversion, New Delhi, 1986, p. 148., and also quoted in Goel, S.R. Muslim Separatism - Causes and Consequences