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28 Jun, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Nawab Nehru's Nawabi love for seculars and the languages of invaders. On the floor of the House. Circa 1949. Ostensibly, he was opposed to Hindustani as India's national language. Ostensibly. This is what he said.
"Do not conceive for a moment that I am a communal-minded man. When I oppose Hindustani I do so, not on account of my lack of love for those people, but because of my love and affection for them"
"Today if you speak for Hindustani, it will not be heard. You will be misrepresented, you will be misunderstood and therefore my honest advice to Maulana Hifzur Rahman is that he should wait for two or three years he will have his Urdu language, he will have his Persian script,
"I know how he feels. I am myself a Persian scholar and I have read Urdu and I have loved it. I can say that I have written more in Persian and Urdu than my Friend Maulana Hifzur Rahman. I had a clerk for twenty years who was a Muhammadan...
"when there was fight between Hindus and Muzlims at Jhansi many of my friends came to me and said "You have got a Muzlim clerk, turn him out I said "No, he is my brother, he is my own kith and kin and blood of my blood."
"I believe that all Muzlims who are in India and all those who are in Pakistan are my own blood, they are my own brethren."
And as Nawab Nehru went on, loving the sound of his own voice, the President shut him up: "the honourable Member has been not always relevant and the House is not in a mood to listen to him."
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See why I call him Nawab Nehru?

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