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Understanding Partition
Discuss how Pakistan got its name “Pakistan” as a country.
The name Pakistan or Pak-stan (from Punjab, Afghan Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan) was coined by a Punjabi Muslim student at Cambridge, Choudhry Rehmat Ali, who, in pamphlets written in 1933 and 1935, desired a separate national status for this new entity. No one took Rehmat Ali seriously in the 1930s least of all the League and other Muslim leaders who dismissed his idea merely as a student’s dream.
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What did the Muslim League demand through its Resolution of 1940?
Why did some people think of Partition as a very sudden development?
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.
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