Hindu–Muslim unity: Difference between revisions

'''Hindu–Muslim unity''' is a religiopolitical concept in the [[Indian subcontinent]] which stresses members of the two largest faith groups there, [[Hindu]]s and [[Islam in India|Muslim]]s working together for the common good. The concept was championed by various person such as leaders in the [[Indian independence movement]], such as [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]],<ref name="Bhave1997">{{cite book |last1=Bhave |first1=Y. G. |title=The Mahatma and the Muslims |date=1997 |publisher=Northern Book Centre |isbn=9788172110819 |page=39 |language=en}}</ref> as well as by political parties and movements, such as the [[Indian National Congress]], [[Khudai Khidmatgar]] and [[All India Azad Muslim Conference]].<ref name="Veeravalli2016">{{cite book |last1=Veeravalli |first1=Anuradha |title=Gandhi in Political Theory: Truth, Law and Experiment |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317130994 |page=84 |language=en}}</ref> Those who [[opposition to the partition of India|opposed the partition of colonial India]] often adhered to the doctrine of [[composite nationalism]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Na |first1=Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im |last2=Naʻīm |first2=ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad |title=Islam and the Secular State |date=2009 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0-674-03376-4 |page=156 |language=en |quote=The Jamiya-i-ulama-Hind founded in 1919, strongly opposed partition in the 1940s and was committed to composite nationalism.}}</ref>