But the country as a whole divided along predictable lines, and progress on the issue is, three years later, difficult to discern.
Akbar's appetite for youthful fantasy may eventually have cooled, but his "Hamzanama" reflects something of his essential character, and the character of Mughal art as a whole, divided in its loyalties between sweetness and cruelty, adolescence and adulthood, the abject real and the kooky ideal.
Their lives were the tale of a whole that divides and cannot be made one again.
They functioned together as a well-organized whole, dividing up the tasks without regard to their own welfare.
Thus consider a circle (the whole) divided into two semicircles (the parts).
Unions as a whole are divided: the more moderate CFDT, for example, is against the current strike, and backs the planned SNCF reform.
Three-quarters of Latino Catholics voted for Mr Obama (a key factor in the president's re-election) while 59% of white Catholics opted for Mr Romney; this left Catholics as a whole evenly divided.What about godless Britain?
In the summer of 1945 the city, like the country as a whole, was divided into zones of occupation by the Allied powers (France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States).
Rather than dealing with his twelve-man team as a whole, Azinger divided it into three "pods" of four, instructing each group of pod members to spend time together and discuss how they could get the best out of themselves and beat the Europeans.
On religion – and make of this what you will, as their different age profile explains only part of the difference – Ukip voters roughly match Britain as a whole in dividing evenly on whether or not they are religious, whereas Green voters are significantly more likely to be atheists.
