F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Quote

The greater the political progress made by the Hindus, the greater, in my judgement, will be the Moslem discontent and antagonism. All the conferences in the world cannot bridge over the unbridgeable, and between those two countries lies a chasm which cannot be crossed by the resources of modern political engineering.

Statement of 1925, as quoted in Lord Reading (1967) by H. Montgomery Hyde, p. 387.