In a book, "Pakistan - A Nation" by "El Hamza", published in February 1941, (Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf, Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore), we find an SDRE (short-dark-rice-eater) reference.
Page 113 (emphasis added)
"For the Pakistani mind the Congress cult is associated with hypocritical whining about non-violence, scraggy chocolate-coloured longevity-seekers sitting in loin-cloths and weaving metaphysical hocus pocus with subtle schemes of economic pressure, five-foot-four-inch processionists with flat noses and bulging cheeks shouting out-landish slogans in shrill voices—all this smelling strongly of usury, untouchability and an inordinate hatred and fear of the Muslims. As has already been stated the Congress is an oligarchic organization of Aryo-Dravidian Hindus who dream of establishing imperial control over the vast regions of the Mongoloid east, the Dravidian south and the Aryan north-west with its Indo-Persian culture. The Bania imperialists count upon the comparative lack of political enterprise in these countries and seek to found the prosperity of their race on a control over their inhabitants. With a curious perversity the Congress who profess their aim to be the liberation of the oppressed and the establishment of freedom and equality among the Indian peoples see in the success of their initial efforts an opportunity to gain control of a number of other nations and exploit them for the benefit of the Hindustani race. The Congress oligarchs hope to rule Pakistan, Bengal, Maharashtra, Rajputana and South India from Wardha. They dream of the Bania Centre sending out governors and administrators to exploit the agricultural millions of the North-West and the East for the benefit of Hindustan which they hope
Page 114
to industrialize. Alongside these empire-builders there are crusaders in the Congress who hope to impose the culture of the Hindu monsoon-land upon the Islamic North-West. They would like to use their political control to transform the Aryan eaters of wheaten bread and meat into dhoti-clad vegetarians and change the intensely democratic worshippers of the One God to a caste-ridden society worshipping a million stones, insects, animals, human beings and divine beings. They would replace the bulbous domes, Saracenic arcades, storeyed minarets, marble trellises and coloured mosaic of the Mughal buildings with shapeless masses of stone everywhere displaying a riotous abundance of pillars and human figures with many arms or many legs or having elephants' trunks for noses. In the place of the universal Urdu resonant with Persian and Arabic gutterals and made rich from a score of different sources, they would teach the dead Pali and Prakrit in educational institutions. They would deaden the martial spirit of the Indo-Afghans by preaching to them the hypocritical creed of non-violence and afterwards merge them in the inert mass of the conservative Aryo-Dravidian society. But the Bania imperialists are doomed to be disappointed. To their plans of expansion in the North-West is opposed the national will of the people of Pakistan. In the past North-Western India was not a rich or populous region but it supplied the Mughals then, as it does the British to-day, with their finest army recruits. To-day the Paks are much more numersous than they were in the past and their country is far richer. It is inconceivable that they should be coerced into submission by any other Indian power. In the times to come Pakistan will advance irresistibly on her way to freedom and independence.
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The book is dedicated as follows:
Page 113 (emphasis added)
"For the Pakistani mind the Congress cult is associated with hypocritical whining about non-violence, scraggy chocolate-coloured longevity-seekers sitting in loin-cloths and weaving metaphysical hocus pocus with subtle schemes of economic pressure, five-foot-four-inch processionists with flat noses and bulging cheeks shouting out-landish slogans in shrill voices—all this smelling strongly of usury, untouchability and an inordinate hatred and fear of the Muslims. As has already been stated the Congress is an oligarchic organization of Aryo-Dravidian Hindus who dream of establishing imperial control over the vast regions of the Mongoloid east, the Dravidian south and the Aryan north-west with its Indo-Persian culture. The Bania imperialists count upon the comparative lack of political enterprise in these countries and seek to found the prosperity of their race on a control over their inhabitants. With a curious perversity the Congress who profess their aim to be the liberation of the oppressed and the establishment of freedom and equality among the Indian peoples see in the success of their initial efforts an opportunity to gain control of a number of other nations and exploit them for the benefit of the Hindustani race. The Congress oligarchs hope to rule Pakistan, Bengal, Maharashtra, Rajputana and South India from Wardha. They dream of the Bania Centre sending out governors and administrators to exploit the agricultural millions of the North-West and the East for the benefit of Hindustan which they hope
Page 114
to industrialize. Alongside these empire-builders there are crusaders in the Congress who hope to impose the culture of the Hindu monsoon-land upon the Islamic North-West. They would like to use their political control to transform the Aryan eaters of wheaten bread and meat into dhoti-clad vegetarians and change the intensely democratic worshippers of the One God to a caste-ridden society worshipping a million stones, insects, animals, human beings and divine beings. They would replace the bulbous domes, Saracenic arcades, storeyed minarets, marble trellises and coloured mosaic of the Mughal buildings with shapeless masses of stone everywhere displaying a riotous abundance of pillars and human figures with many arms or many legs or having elephants' trunks for noses. In the place of the universal Urdu resonant with Persian and Arabic gutterals and made rich from a score of different sources, they would teach the dead Pali and Prakrit in educational institutions. They would deaden the martial spirit of the Indo-Afghans by preaching to them the hypocritical creed of non-violence and afterwards merge them in the inert mass of the conservative Aryo-Dravidian society. But the Bania imperialists are doomed to be disappointed. To their plans of expansion in the North-West is opposed the national will of the people of Pakistan. In the past North-Western India was not a rich or populous region but it supplied the Mughals then, as it does the British to-day, with their finest army recruits. To-day the Paks are much more numersous than they were in the past and their country is far richer. It is inconceivable that they should be coerced into submission by any other Indian power. In the times to come Pakistan will advance irresistibly on her way to freedom and independence.
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The book is dedicated as follows:
TO
THE IMMORTAL CLAN
AURAKZAI
SENTINELS OF PAKISTAN
WHO HAVE MAINTAINED INVIOLATE THROUGH THE
INDIGNITIES OF TIME THEIR FREEDOM AND THEIR PRIDE,
AND WHOSE INDIVIDUALS HAVE FOR GENERATIONS
PAST PERFUMED WITH THEIR GENIUS AND ENRICHED
PAST PERFUMED WITH THEIR GENIUS AND ENRICHED
WITH THEIR BLOOD THE SACRED SOIL OF
THE LAND OF THE FIVE RIVERS
THE LAND OF THE FIVE RIVERS
PS: the book had a second edition, December 1942, and a third edition, December 1944.
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