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Understanding Partition
Name the writer of ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara’. What did he speak to the Muslim League in 1930 in his presidential address?
Mohammad Iqbal, a great national Urdu poet wrote “Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara.” He spoke in favour of need for north-west Indian Muslim state as an autonomous unit within a single, loose Indian federation in 1930.
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How did ordinary people view Partition?
What were Mahatma Gandhi’s arguments against Partition?
Why is Partition viewed as an extremely significant marker in South Asian history?
Why was British India partitioned?
How did women experience Partition?
How did the Congress come to change its views on Partition?
Examine the strengths and limitations of oral history. How have oral-history techniques furthered our understanding of Partition?
Find out about the ethnic violence that led to the partition of Yugoslavia. Compare your findings with what you have read about partition in this chapter.
Name the writer of ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara’. What did he speak to the Muslim League in 1930 in his presidential address?
What did the Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal meant by “North West Indian Muslim State”?
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