Quotes from Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

today we are all lamenting that the British have secretly encouraged the Muslims against the Hindus. Even if it were true, why should we blame the British?' After centuries of living together the Hindus are unable to accept the Muslims socially, they cannot eat together, they cannot even sit on the same carpet—that was the crucial weakness in Bengal's society and that was naturally exploited by the British.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which is possible when one is alone.

The chief weakness of the people of Bengal is self-pride, which is why they are unhappy if they do not hear all the time words of praise … This vanity, hunger for flattery, obscures their vision and they do not perceive others clearly. We deprive ourselves on account of this blindness.

The greater impediment was the inadequate development of a consciousness of unity in a country which was divided by barriers between religious communities, castes, language communities, between people with different social norms and practices. Joint resistance to British rule might be for the time being a unifying factor, but 'the moment the British would leave India the bond of unity thus constructed would snap'.