He said, "...It is both our bounden duty and our privilege to live and work with the Hindus and other Indian races as loyal subjects of the Imperial Crown. The plan now published does not give the Mussalmans all they could wish, but it will be accepted unreservedly, I hope, as an earnest of our readiness to co-operate with our rulers and to help them in their difficult task of introducing the principles of constitutional government in so diversified a county as India, and also as exhibiting our cordial goodwill towards other communities. It is our earnest hope and cherished expectation that a reciprocal spirit will be shown in other directions..." (Aziz; 305)