Division of our beloved mother India is the sadest saga of indian history.”india is inseperable “this was said by the Britishers who came here and resided for about 300 years.Then what lead to formation of pakistan?
Lets try to find it out………
“Pakistan would not have been born,if pandit jawah lal nehru and Mahatama gandhii didn’t have shown supportive attitude.”
These lines signifies the darkest parts of the division of India and since we,Indians,don’t want to scratch old wounds that’s why modern education system does not include details of this era And whenever someone comes forth with their views on this issue,they are more than often suppressed.as was seen in the case of jaswant singh….
From the Indian history …
In 1909,a big debate started that Hindus are going to be disappeared,(According to a census the growth rate of muslims was far better than that of Hindus) and after knowing this fact, the Hindu leaders made certain statements that were almost antimuslim in a sense and Muslims equivocated This all created a havoc which might as well have been the beginning of the anti Muslim feeling in the country.This all lead to formation of National Muslim League as a separate communal party. Here arises Muhammad Ali Jinnah, also known as “Quaid-e-Azam” in the history of India, as a leader of Muslim league.In the begging Jinnah was a great supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity, so, he joined All India National Congress. In 1913 Jinnah joined Muslim League and took an active part to make it effective. It was through his efforts that Muslim League and Congress Party agreed to a political settlement in 1916. This agreement is known as “Lucknow Pact”. According to this pact, Congress for the first time recognized a separate position of the Muslims and accepted the Muslim’s demand for a separate electorate. As the time passes and Jinnah realized that Congress is only for Hindus and only protecting Hindu’s rights, Jinnah left Congress and devoted all his energies for the welfare of Muslims of Indian Sub-Continent. By 1940,jinnah almost beleived that Hindus and Muslims are two seperate communities which can’t live togeather and from here the horizon of partition begins.From this the idelogy of Jinnah it can be judged and this can also be guessed that he himself doesn’t wanted a different nation but the circumstances lead him to think so…..
Jawahar lal Nehru put forward a report,showing that there are no discrepencies between hindu and muslims and the both can live togeather happily.But jinnah realised that this was a political report not the actual one .so he mput forward a report giving details about the present scenerio of the india. In his report, he insisted that there is only one majority in the India i.e. Hindus (although Congress agreed in Lucknow Pact that Muslims are a separate nation). jinnah put forward his fourteen points in 1929, in which it is clearly said that there are two big religions in the India i.e. Muslims and Hindus not one as it was claimed in Nehru report. Jinnah fourteen points also includes demands for some constitutional reforms. From this it can be concluded that Jinnah was very anxious about the future of Muslims of India.He wished that the Muslims should emerge as an effective force.This concern of jinnah made him one of the favourates of muslims at that time. Muslim League suffered from few internal problems. In 1934, Jinnah took over control of theMuslim League and made it strong and organized party within few years. In 1940, at the 27th annual session of the Muslim League, held in Lahore, Jinnah with other Muslim leaders analyzed the political problems of Muslims in great deal. A resolution was passed unanimously which is known as Lahore Resolution. In this resolution it was demanded that Muslims of the Indian Sub-Continent should have a separate homeland comprising the regions of the Sub-Continent having a Muslim majority. After the Lahore Resolution passed on 23rd March, 19940, the Muslim League entered into a new phase and under the presidency of Jinnah soon become a popular party. Jinnah put his best to made Muslim League a true representative party of Muslims. The results were obvious in 1945-46 elections, when Muslim League enjoyed a landslide victory both in central assembly as well as in provincial assembly elections. The Muslims continued their organized efforts under the guidelines provided to them by Jinnah.Here a mystery is still unanswered that why the indian leaders din’t took any step to stop this unwanted spread of mental insecurities among the residents of India,although at that time any body as intellect as Mahatama gandhi and Nehru would have forseeken this division of India.If they had ,as certain statements by their companions suggest,then why dint they take any significant step against this?
In 1946 british tried,although that was too late,for eastablishing harmony between Hindus and Muslims by purposing a common central government having representatives of the both communities.It did happened but the collabration collapsed in the mistrust from both the sides, and then jinnah finally pushed for a seprate state for muslims PAKISTAN .Here few indian scolars held only jinnah responsible for the division.but what about the other side of the coin.?
There are certain questions.Why the collabration collapsed,though both knowing this will lead to disaster?
Was there some conflict about the political status in independent india or there was any other reasons?
But there might have been a alternate route which should have been taken and thus the biggest and the darkest part of history of india would have been avoided :-migration of 14 million people and death of a million odd people
But that might have hurt ego of few,so it wasn’t taken.few say it was due to the Jinnah,but as the few freedom fighters have quoted that jinnah was a secular nationalist and was badly differentiated during political reforms of india.He gave the statement” after we have divided then we can come togeather and cooperate.”On which maulana azad said"This is divorce before marriage". The above statement shows a bit different part of the character that is love for hindu-muslim unity. As a result of these efforts Pakistan came into being on 14th August, 1947.
Nehru and gandhi tell themselves as great idealist but ind end fail to grasp the biggest certanity. jinnah was a convinced secular nationalist, who only at very end took independent pakistan.Then the thing is Was the jinnah only responsible for the division or few others were too?
And if others were involved so why aren’t they also be detained from the modern indian history as jinnah is?
why do someone writing on their ideoligies is not banned but jinnah’s are?
This is not fair at all.Like someone has quoted”success has many fathers,but failure is orphan.”our leaders have blindly posed the blame of this division on jinnah.Was this a step taken by our beloved leaders in the desire of peace for country or political position in country?
if no one wants the division then why did it took place?
Near his end time jinnah made a statement”agreeing to the formation of pakistan as a different nation for muslims was the biggest mistake of my life”whom did he agreed to?aren’t those responsible?
