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The truth was the British weren't really bothered about the Muslims or the Hindus. They were simply concerned with their own Raj and prepared to do whatever would fortify it. It was clear to them that if the Congress and the Muslim League could be prevented from reaching a mutual accord, power would continue to remain with them, the British. Accordingly their concern was to coax or coerce Muslim League into a position that would place its reconciliation with Congress out of the realm of possibility. Lord Wellington's tenure ended in 1936. His place was taken by Lord Linlithgow. In London Sir Samuel Hoare was replaced by Lord Zetland as Secretary of State for India. Between them the two - but especially the Viceroy - fanned the Hindu Muslim passions so cleverly and with such finesse that no possibility remained of the two sided coming together again. Like Lord Irwin, the new Viceroy was also confident that under the system of separate electorate any elections were bound to excite communal sentiments. The candidate would appeal for votes on the basis of religion and the assembly that would emerge would have few members of a purely nationalist or Indian mind. The Hindu and Muslim members would in fact each seek solution to national problems from the point of view of the interest of their own communities and would try to ensure that their separate electorates would have no reason to be dis-satisfied with them on that basis. Thus, politics was to be dominated not by national but only by communal concerns.
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