<P> We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation . We are a nation of hundred million and what is more, we are a nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of values and proportions, legal laws and moral codes, customs and calendar, history and tradition, and aptitude and ambitions . In short, we have our own outlook on life and of life . </P> <P> In an interview with the British journalist Beverley Nichols, he said in 1943: </P> <P> Islam is not only a religious doctrine but also a realistic code of conduct in terms of every day and everything important in life: our history, our laws and our jurisprudence . In all these things, our outlook is not only fundamentally different but also opposed to Hindus . There is nothing in life that links us together . Our names, clothes, food, festivals, and rituals, all are different . Our economic life, our educational ideas, treatment of women, attitude towards animals, and humanitarian considerations, all are very different . </P> <P> In May 1947, he had an entirely different emphasis when he told Mountbatten, who was in charge of British India's transition to independence: </P>

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