SIR,-1 would like to draw Mr. Jenkins's attention to the
statements below made by two English students of contemporary Indian affairs. Of the two, the first, Sir Reginald Coupland, is Beit Professor of Colonial History in the University of Oxford. He says, in The Cripps Mission, p. 15, "An impartial investigator would come, I think, to the conclusion that many of these charges (made by the Muslim League against the Congress Ministries) were exaggerated or of little serious moment, that many of the incidents complained of were due to irresponsible members of the Congress Party, and the case against the Congress governments as deliberately pursuing an anti-Moslem policy was certainly not proved." (Italics mine.).
Another critical observer, Mr. John Coatman, writing in The Asiatic
Review, October, 1942, refers to the "undoubted goodwill of the majority of the Congress ministers," and says, "There is no doubt that practically everywhere the Congress ministers set OM to administer their departments honestly and equitably and many of them were doing very good work."
Finally, I would like to point out that Pandit Nehru offered to have an Inquiry by a tribunal into the alleged misdeeds of the Congress, but this offer was not accepted by the Muslim League. I thank you for your great courtesy in allowing me to reply to the allegations of Mr. Jenkins.—Yours
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