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was possible, but Hindu-Muslims unity was impossible".<ref name="Shodhganga2019"/>
was possible, but Hindu-Muslims unity was impossible".<ref name="Shodhganga2019"/>
The author of ''[[Composite Nationalism and Islam]]'', Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, a Deobandi Muslim scholar and proponent of a united India, argued that the British were attempting to "scare Muslims into imagining that in a free India Muslims would lose their separate identity, and be absorbed into the Hindu fold", a threat that "aim[ed] at depoliticizing the Muslims, weaning them away from struggle
The author of ''Composite Nationalism and Islam'', Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, a Deobandi Muslim scholar and proponent of a united India, argued that the British were attempting to "scare Muslims into imagining that in a free India Muslims would lose their separate identity, and be absorbed into the Hindu fold", a threat that "aim[ed] at depoliticizing the Muslims, weaning them away from struggle
for independence."<ref name="Shodhganga2019"/> In the eyes of Madani, support for a two-nation theory resulted in the entrenchment of British imperialism.<ref name="Shodhganga2019"/>
for independence."<ref name="Shodhganga2019"/> In the eyes of Madani, support for a two-nation theory resulted in the entrenchment of British imperialism.<ref name="Shodhganga2019"/>