In India, the Muhammadans, the Muhammadans who claim to be partitioned: Pakistan and Hindustan. There are number of Muhammadans, they protested that “India is going to be independent, but we do not wish to participate with the Hindus. We must be separate.” Why? Because they have got a bad experience that the Hindus did not treat them very well

These Muhammadans who came, who grown in India, they were not imported from Afghanistan or Turkey or any Muhammadan country. They were Indians. But they were not given any facility for spiritual culture. The brahmanas monopolized it. Although they would not do anything, they would all, degraded form. But still, they would keep these sudras and the candalas downtrodden and ill-treated. So therefore, when Aurangzeb passed a law, Jizya tax… Jizya tax means all the non-Muhammadans would pay a tax. So these low-class people were so neglected. They thought — it is natural — that “Why should we pay this tax? We are not very much well treated by the Hindus. So what is the use of remain Hindu and pay the tax?” So the wholesale, this neglected class of men became Muhammadans. This is the history. Otherwise, these Muhammadan did not come from the Muhammadan country.

So in this way a community was formed, Muhammadan community, gradually. And this British government took advantage of this ill-feeling between Hindus and Muhammadans. And they wanted to rule over India. They felt that ill-feeling. There is a great history. They are very big politician. In this way, at last, Jinnah, he was bribed by the British government and all the Britishers, that “You take as much money as you like.” Because the Britishers thought that “India is going to be independent, that cannot be checked, so make them smaller, smaller, smaller.”

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.2 – May 26, 1974, Rome