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CERTAIN EFS At FACTS EXAMINED
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fart that all the same five "grounds", as are set forth in the-
Sind Government Notification, No. S. IL 321, October 10,
1946, the same PrOvineial Government can repeat bodily
in pelmet of the XI, XII and XIII Chapters as well,
by
merely substituting such word as the "Hindu", the "jaM
or "Buddhist" or the "Christian" in place of "Muslim"
and the name of the Muslim scripture as the case may be,
and then ban the book for that reason in Sind with
as-
much moral propriety and legal tenability and validity as it
has done in respect of the XIV Chapter. This position is
irrefutable. That being so, there is absolutely no
basis,
moral or legal, for the Sind Government's claim that-
XIV Chapter
of
the
Satyartha Prakash
"appears" to it to
contain matter which promotes feelings of enmity or hatred
between
Musalmans on the one side and any or all the non-
Musalman communities on the other.
Thus the factual foundation and the whole edifice upon
which the forfeiture of the book has been built up is, to
put it most mildly, vicious and illusory. And it is not-
without its own meaning either that the Sind League
Ministry has chosen to ban the book in respect not of
any
Chapt-r which "attacks" the religious teachings and beliefs
of a minority community, but of the chapter which "attacks"
those of the Musalmans, who form the majority community
in Sind. It is, therefore, fair and reasonable presumption,
warranted by the logic of communal and .political events
in India generally and in Sind in particular, and also
by
the many-sided implications of the resolution of the
Karachi Session of the A.-I. Muslim League, referred to-
above, that the ban on
Satyartha Prakash
is basically 'a-
League Ministerial act of communal jobbery and
favouritism, intended, perhaps, to further seduce and
corrupt the Muslim masses by playing upon feelings of
bigotry and
fanaticism and thus serve the unmoral, that
iw.to say,
tea-/s/awrie,
political ends of the League leader-
ship.
there may be perhaps also other objects
in view,- But
we
are
not
concerned with them just at the
moment.
What indeed is of vital
importance here. is the comeliest-