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Understanding Partition
“Some people think that partition of India was a very sudden.” Justify the statement.
The reasons:
(i) There was a very short time-Just seven years between the first formal articulation of the demand for a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent and Partition.
(ii) Many who migrated from their homelands in 1947 thought they would return as soon as peace prevailed again.
(iii) Initially, even Muslim leaders did not seriously raise the demand for Pakistan as a sovereign state.
(iv) No one knew what the creation of Pakistan meant, and how it might shape people’s lives in the future.
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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?
When did and why the Cripps Mission arrive in India? Mention two reasons that led to the failure of the Cripps Mission of 1942.
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