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Understanding Partition
Why do the contemporary observers and scholars describe the violent incidents during partition of the country as holocaust? Give any two reasons.
According to the contemporary observers and scholars the violent incidents, during the partition were like holocaust which meant destruction or slaughter on a mass-scale.
(i) The Indians and the Pakistanis considered each other as enemies. There
were attempts from both the sides to wipe out the entire population.
(ii) There were innumerable incidents of killing, rape, arson and loot.
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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”?
Why and when was the Cabinet Mission sent to India?
Why did the Muslim League reject the Cripps proposals?
What were the major features of the Indian Independence Act, 1947?
What were the negative consequences of partition of India in 1947?
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