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Understanding Partition
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows :
Every citizen in a free state should be treated in a manner that satisfied not only his material wants but also his spiritual sense of the self respect and the majority community has an obligation to try and understand the problems of the minorities and empathise with their aspiration.
How could a citizen of a free nation express his imbibed values of equality and social justice while dealing with the members of the minority community ? Explain.
i. Abolishing social dogmas
ii. Respecting rights of the minority community.
iii. Granting them privileges, Equality, Social justice.
iv. Integration into mainstream and creating opportunities for them.
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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”?
Why and when was the Cabinet Mission sent to India?
Why did the Muslim League reject the Cripps proposals?
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