Question : “There is no other instance in the history of mankind of a poet and philosopher working such a miracle in shaping the destiny of his people”.
(2007)
Answer : Iqbal was a philosopher, poet and a political leader. He got elected to the Punjab legislative assembly in 1927 and became the President of Allahabad session of Muslim League in 1930.
Initially, he was great supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity. Later he became advocated of the separate state of Pakistan. In addition to his political activism, Iqbal was considered a foremost Muslim thinker of his date.
His poetry and philosophy written in Urdu stressed the rebirth of ....
Question : “I felt that if we did not accept partition, India would be split into many bits and would be completely ruined.”
(2006)
Answer : India was partitioned in 1947 into two dominions, India and Pakistan. It was a saddest event in history of India. The fighters of freedom struggle had never intended the partition of the country. But the Nationalists leaders of India had to accept the partition due to the deteriorating condition of India. According to Vallabh Bhai Patel, had it not been partitioned, India would have been completely ruined.
When English established their political supremacy in India, they ....
Question : ‘We are therefore unable to advise the British Government that the power which at present resides in British hands should be handed over to two entirely separate sovereign States.’
(2004)
Answer : After prolonged discussions in New Delhi Cabinet Mission succeeded in bringing the Congress and the Muslim League together in conference at Simla. There was a full exchange of views and both parties were prepared to make considerable concessions in order to try to reach a settlement, but it ultimately proved impossible to close the remainder of the gap between the parties and so no agreement could be concluded. Since no agreement has been reached it ....
Question : Trace the Origin and growth of the Indian Muslim League.
(1999)
Answer : In the rise of the separtist tendency along communal lines, Sayyid Ahmad Khan played an important role. Though a great educationist and social reformer, Sayyid Ahmad Khan became towards the end of his life a conservative in politics. He laid the foundations of Muslim Communalism when in the 1880s he gave up his earlier view and declared that the political interests of Hindus and the Muslims were not the same but different and even divergent. ....
Question : The Pakistan movement converted a cultural and religious entity of a people into a separatist political force. Elucidate.
(1996)
Answer : Communalism remained at the second, liberal stage till 1937 when it increasingly started assuming a virulent, extremist or fascist form. Extreme communalism was based on the politics of hatred, fear psychosis and irrationality. A campaign of hatred against the followers of other religions was unleashed. The interest of Hindus and Muslims were now declared to be permanently in conflict. Communalism also now, after 1937, increasingly acquired a popular base, and began to mobilize popular mass ....
