They had noted the constant exhortation of the Hindu Nationalist Press that the youth of India must prepare for the coming Lalki incarnation of Vishnu when the _mlencchas_--i.e., the infidels, Moslem as well as British--should be driven out of India.

The attitude of the Hindus towards the Mahomedans of Eastern Bengal, after the Partition, had shown how they resented the position that the creation of the new province gave the Moslem element.

Nor had the Mahomedans in the Punjab been left without a foretaste of what was to come.

In every Government office, in every profession, the Hindus were banding themselves closer and closer together against their few Mahomedan colleagues.

The Mahomedans had refused to join in the boycott of British goods, and in Delhi, in Lahore, and in many other cities the word had been passed round among the Hindus not to deal with Mahomedan shops, not to trade with Mahomedan merchants.