ABSTRACT
The responsibility for building and developing their common homeland lay on both the Hindus and the Muslims. The Muslims in their majority provinces and the Hindus in theirs should naturally get their share of this responsibility so that the country might benefit from the particular manner of thought, culture and civilization of each community and that, rather than becoming Hindu India or Muslim India, the country should become an India for both. Laying the responsibility for the failure on the British government, he repeated an argument that historians unanimously held that the Muslims and Hindus lived in India as brothers before the arrival of the British. Dr. Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan was a leading member of the Muslim Conference and the author of a number of tracts on the Hindu-Muslim problem in the twenties and thirties. He was a member of the first interim cabinet under Jawaharlal Nehru but was dropped when the Muslim League agreed to participate.
