Hindu Psyche ?

Sorrowfully, I came to the conclusion, which I was ashamed to confess even to myself, that in a grim struggle involving violence, the Muslims had the advantage of a leadership which had a ‘master-race’ complex towards the Hindus.

On the other hand, The Hindus were at a disadvantage because of there habit, developed during centuries of alien rule, of adopting a heroic attitude in words and then of maneuvering themselves into safety by some clever device, or finding some moral justification for submitting to the disaster which was made inevitable by their own lack of will to resist.

K.M.Munshi: Pilgrimage to Freedom. Page 86

Why This Defeatist Psyche ?

It seems to me that Bhutto and Aziz Ahmed tried in a carefully calibrated manner to put the Indian team on the defensive. Strange as this may sound, the Indian team did not seem very comfortable with the fact of having won the war. I have tried to understand the psychology behind this attitude without success.

Perhaps it was Indira Gandhi’s view mainly that it would be unbecoming for us as victors to behave victoriously while hosting the summit, that infected our attitude or perhaps our collective historical experience makes us feel more at home with set backs.

- P.N.Dhar in “ Indira Gandhi: Emergency and Indian Democracy"

How A Nation is Born

'A nation is neither given as a gift nor got as a present, nor bought with gold or silver, nor offered by a treaty nor achieved by an agreement. It is the creation of the people, the people who identify themselves with the soil where they work, where they toil, where they suffer shading their sweat, shading their blood, shading their tears not for a day or two but from generations upto generations, that is how a nation is born.'

-Ben Gurien