Muslims are we, the country is ours, China and Arabia is ours, India is ours. Under the shadow of swords we have grown up. The crescent scabbard is our national emblem.

Mohammed Iqbal , circa 1930, Ved Mehta "Coming Down", India , Granta 57 (London: Granta, 1997), p. 148. quoted in Savarkar and The Discourse on Islam in Pre-independent India, Amalendu Misra. Source: Journal of Asian History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (1999)