66 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 80 Mahratta, 19 September 1923. The same arguments were used to justify the shuddhi and sanghatan movements. 31 Comrade, 22 May 1925, quoted in Mohibbul Hasan, "Mahatma Gandhi and Indian Muslims", in S C Biswas (ed), Gandhi Theory and Practice: Social Impact and Contemporary Relevance, Simla, 1969, p 139. 32 McLane, Indian .nationalism, p 334. ;^ Shahjamil Alam, a student of Allahbad, rightly suggested to Motilal Nehru that the Congress should preach the gospel of Hindu-Muslim unity in the villages and in towns: "Unless these two classes of people—the villagers and the street men in town—be set to work together without any distinction of communities, there is more hope of a danger than peace", Jamil Alam to Motilal Nehru, 21 June 1926, AICC Papers (10), 1926. 84 Maulvi Rafiuddin quoted in Times a/India, 24 August 1923. 85 Hidayct Hosain to Ansari, 12 December 1927, in Mushirul Hasan (ed), Muslims and the Congress: Select Correspondence of Dr M A Ansari, 7972-7P55,Manohar Publications, Delhi, 1976, p41. 86 The Belgaum session of the Hindu Mahasabha in January 1925 was attended by Congress stalwarts like Rajendra Prasad, S Satyamurti, Lajpat Rai, Malaviya and Jairamdas Doulatram. At a time when communal feelings were running high in the country the presence of such men at the Hindu Mahasabha meeting could only serve to estrange many Muslims from the Congress. 37 Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, London, 1926, p 136. 88 Moonje to Menon, 16 March 1922, Moonje Dossier (10), NLC. a9 Ibid., 18July, 1926. 40 Moonje tojayakar, 2 June 1925, Jayakar Papefs. 41 17 February 1927, Moonje Diaries (2). 42 Amrita Bazar Patrika, 21 and 22 December 1923. 48 Motilal Nehru to Ansari, 1 May 1928, Hasan (ed), Muslims and the Congress, p 46; Hasan, rationalism and Communal Politics, pp 267-268, 271-272. 44 Jayakar, leader of the Swaraj Party in the Bombay Legislative Council, was also the chairman of the Bombay branch of the Hindu Mahasabha in 1925. He emphasized the importance of the movement as a source of cultural and social development of the Hindu community, M R Jayakar, The Story of My Life, Bombay, 1958, Vol 2, p632. 45 Hasan, rationalism and Communal Politics, p 299. 46 See Ram Prasad and Deshbandhu Gupta to Ansari, 6 December 1928, Hasan (ed), Muslims and the Congress, p 63. 47 Lajpat Rai to Motilal Nehru, AICC Papers (100), Supplementary files. 48 Moonje to Malaviya, 31 July 1928, Jayakar Papers (437). 49 Moonje to Gandhi, 5 August 1929, Ibid, ffo A P Hume to G K Darling, 4 May 1932, Hiime Papers (HA), Centre of South Asian ' Studies, Cambridge. £1 Mohamed Ali to Jawaharlal Nehru, 15 June 1924, A Bunch of Old Letters, p 38; Abdul Bari to Mohamed Ali, II September 1923, Mohamed Ali Papers, Jamia Millia Islamia Library, New Delhi. 62 Shaukat Ali to Ansari, 19 May 1929, in Hasan (ed), Muslims and the Congress, p 70. 53 Ansari to Gandhi, 13 February 1929, ibid, p 96. 84 AICC Papers (3), Nehru Memorial Library.