enkidu_
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Yes he wrote this in 1930s when Muslims of british India has started asking for a separate nation. So while muslim league was looking after Muslim interests and Congress was into secularism, another organisation was trying to look after hindu interests.
What's wrong with a different nation if Hindu nationalists themselves think so ? As Ambedkar cleverly noted, Jinnah and Savarkar only differed in one single point : the idea of dividing the lands, otherwise Savarkar (and Golwalkar, etc) said the exact same, that is Hindus and Muslims constitute two different nations (some of them used to say "races"), with not only different but opposed spiritual systems, different literatures, the heroes of the ones being the Ravana's of the latter (Aurangzeb is a good case), etc. It's fine to look after "Hindu interests" (those of the Brahmins, Shudras, Dalits, ... ? Considering these "interests" are divergent ?) but then you can at least UNDERSTAND that Jinnah did the same ?