A private, personal matter

In his autobiography, Roses in December, former Chief Justice of India, the late Mahommedali Currim Chagla has written: "I think it is wrong to equate religion with nationality. A nation has many more attributes than a religion has. The fact of worshipping in the same place, or believing in the same religious tenets, does not by itself go to create a sense of nationhood.
"A nation must have a common culture, a common past, a common heritage, and Hindus and Muslims share all these; and the mere fact that they share different religious tenets could not or should not have come in the way of their looking upon themselves as belonging to one nation. Religion is a purely private and personal matter.” DARA KHODAIJI
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