PARADOX OF ANTI-PARTITION AGITATION 57 69. S.N. Banerjea, op. cit, p. 278 - 27. Interestingly, similar campaign was launched by Gandhiji and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat. The latter was called the 'recruiting sergeant' along with the former. They went from village to village on foot. A leaflet was issued by Gandhiji which advocated no differently than what we have noticed in Bengal. It said, "if at a time when the Empire is in difficulty the educated and middle class [emphasis added] assist the Government voluntarily, the Government will naturally lose its distrust of them ... / [Narhari D. Parikh, Sardar Vallabhbhai Paid, Vol.1, Navjivan Publishing, Ahmedabad, September, 1950, p. 98 -100. 70. Chowdhry Afzal Haq, Pakistan and Untouchability, Lahore, 1941, p. 123 -124. 71. Lala Lajpat Rai, op. cit., p. 166. 72. Lovat Frazer, India Under Curzon and After, London, William Heinemann. 73. New Impression, April 1919, p. 176. 74. Ibid., p. 177. 75. V.B. Kulkarni, Is Pakistan Necessary? Hind Kitabs, Bombay, 1944, p. 67.