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I 82 J or await the institution of cases againts them. Unfortun. ately I have no remedy to suggest for such cases. Similar conditions prevail in the Education Depart ment. The doors of education are being shut against the Muslims. They are freely plucked in the examinations. Heads of certain departments openly tell the Muslim candidates that they will not let them pass and will cut them down in the viva-voce. A Government scholar on reaching the final stage finds his career completely ruined. Hindus do not make purchases from Muslim shops, while untouchability in the matter of food and drink is too well known to need repetition. It is little use glibly calling each other brethren on the platforms. Just witness the plight of those labouring Muslim millions whose homes echo the cry of want. The Hindu Baniyas have been sucking the blood of the Muslim peasant. Though the Hindu cultivators are also sharing the same fate still the ultimate result of the system being the annihilation of the Mussalmans, the Hindus oppose any legislation for the prevention of such a state of things. They allow the Hindu cultivators to suffer with the Mussalmans in the hope that they will be able ultimately to redress the condition of the Hindus. Muslim papers with far larger circulation than Hindu p&pers do not receive Government advertisements, while inferior Hindu papers are full of court notices which, in fact, are the chief source of the ir income. Questions relating to Muslim interest are denied attention in • the Councils, while everything pertaining to Hindu interests is pressed forward. A telegram to-day brings the news that the question of separation of Sindh was not even allowed to be put before the Bomb ay Council. In view of these circumstances, can any one make bold to say that the Muslims do not require measures of. protection, and again, any Mussalman in his