On either side of a pond in Ghasera village in Haryana’s Nuh— home to a large population of Meo Muslims—rest a Shiva temple and a mosque. A stone’s throw away from here, in 1947, Mahatma Gandhi addressed thousands of Meo refugees from Alwar and Bharatpur in Rajasthan who were on their way to Pakistan and were staying at a camp in Ghasera. Calling them “India’s backbone”, Gandhi appealed to the Meos to not leave India. Weeks later, he was assassinated.