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Gandhi opposed Partition by Mohammed Ayoob – The Hindu; At Oxford, a stereotype on Partition is busted – The Telegraph; Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 – Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee; Why a majority of Muslims opposed Jinnah’s idea of Partition and stayed on in India - The Indian Express
Gandhi vehemently opposed a constitution that enshrined rights or representations based on communal divisions, because he feared that it would not bring people together but divide them, perpetuate their status, and divert the attention from India's struggle to end the colonial rule. [142] [143]
As a rule, Gandhi was opposed to the concept of partition as it contradicted his vision of religious unity. [54] Of the partition of India to create Pakistan, he wrote in Harijan on 6 October 1946: [The demand for Pakistan] as put forth by the Muslim League is un-Islamic and I have not hesitated to call it sinful. Islam stands for unity and the ...
The Sind Observer reports Gandhi's acceptance to the C. R. Formula. C. Rajagopalachari's formula (or C. R. formula or Rajaji formula) was a proposal formulated by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari to solve the political deadlock between the All India Muslim League and the Indian National Congress on the independence of British India.
Gandhi promised Swaraj within one year if his non-cooperation programme was fully implemented. The other reason to start the non-cooperation movement was that Gandhi lost faith in constitutional methods and turned from cooperator of British rule to non-cooperator campaigning for Indian independence from colonialism. [16]
Map showing the Muslim population based on percentage in India, 1909. The two-nation theory was an ideology of religious nationalism that advocated Muslim Indian nationhood, with separate homelands for Indian Muslims and Indian Hindus within a decolonised British India, which ultimately led to the Partition of India in 1947. [1]
Bharatiya Lok Dal (transl. Indian Peoples' Party) was a political party in India.The BLD or simply BL was formed at the end of 1974 through the fusion of seven parties opposed to the rule of Indira Gandhi, including the Swatantra Party, the Samyukta Socialist Party, the Utkal Congress and the Bharatiya Kranti Dal.
On 8 August 1942 the Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan) began, a civil disobedience movement in India in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for immediate self-rule by Indians and against sending Indians to World War II. Other major parties rejected the Quit India plan, and most cooperated closely with the British, as did the princely ...