And, Sir, may I, before I end, refer in passing to another thing. Some people say, “Oh, Anthony, in spite of your grandiose opinions, of your grandiose sentiments, if you feel so strongly, why don’t you drop this prefix `Anglo’?” Well, I say “The word `Anglo-Indian’ may be good or bad, but rightly or wrongly it connotes to me many things which I hold dear.” But I go further and say to the same friends of mine “I will drop it readily, as soon as you drop your label, the day you drop your label of `Hindu’ .” The day you drop the label of “Hindu”, the day you forget that you are a Hindu, that day-no, two days before that-I will drop by deed poll, by beat of drum if necessary the prefix “anglo” because , believe me that when we all begin to drop these prefixes or labels, not only by paying lip-service to them, not only by making professions about them, but when we really feel them in our hearts, when we by our actions, not by our professions, equate these to our beliefs in a secular State, that day will be welcome first and foremost to the minorities of India, who by that time will have forgotten that they are minorities and that they are Indians first, last and always.
