Partition, split of the nationalist movement didn't happen over ideology or geography. It happened on one key question – is religion the determinant of our nationhood. (Shashi Tharoor)

Partition, split of the nationalist movement didn't happen over ideology or geography. It happened on one key question – is religion the determinant of our nationhood.

Shashi Tharoor

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