14 MAY 1942, Page 12

SIR,—In your issue of April 17th there is ' In interesting

article on India by Sir Stanley Reed, M.P. In it he says that among the minorities there who dread a government entirely dominated by Congress, "or in other words caste Hindus," is the Hindu Mahasabha. Surely this is in- correct? I think the principal plank—if indeed not the only one—in the " platform " of the Mahasabha is that the Congress must not give way to the claims of the Moslems This does not mean that they dread a government dominated by caste Hindus. Indeed, that is what they