| | 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"/> |