The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 15
r 1 s 1 the charge of affairs in a separated area. We are sure that this fear is baseless. Among all the people of India the Hindus of Sindh are perhaps the most enterprising and adventurous. The traveller meets them in the four quarters of the world, carrying on prosperous businesses and enriching their people at home by their earnings abroad. No one can take away this spirit of adventure and enterprise from the Hindus of Sind and so long as they have it their future is assured. It must be remem bered also that the powers of a Provincial Government are limited and there is the central Government which has power in all important departments. " (Nehru-Report, page 32. ) From a comparison of the observations quoted above with the remarks made by the Nehru Committee in deal ing with similar fear on the part of the I\lloslems, one can easily imagine what sort of sympathy will be accord ed to the Mussalmans. For while it has betrayed so much solicitude and regard in respect of the Hindu mis apprehension, it had dealt with the Muslim fear in the same report in the following strain:- ,' A new comer to India looking at thes,� figures and the strength of the Muslim community, would probably imagine that it was strong enough to look after itself and required no special protection or spoon feeding. '' In other words while the susceptibilities of the l\llussal. . . mans hardly deserved any consideration at the hands of of compilers of this report, an injury to the feelings of the Hindus was a collossal sin. Apart from this, the authors of the report, as is clear from the above-quoted