Congress and Pakistan

[the_kaur]

Re: Congress and Pakistan

@muqawwee123

Many people believe that demand of Pakistan was a reaction to unfriendly policies of Congress towards Muslims. Those policies made people like Mr Jinah (who were called ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity) to demand for separate state.

Do you agree with this? What were the major instances of such policies of Congress that lead to partition?

Rise of Mahatma gandhi in 1915 after successful South African struggle was challenge to everyone including MA Jinnah, after Mahatma rise Jinnah went back to London and returned with idea of pakistan.

@muqawwee123

How Partition of Bengal Muslim rights? What role did played by Congress in partition of Bengal? In other words, was Congress in position to stop such partition?

It was bengalis who revolted against it, various movement most notably young bengal movement was reason of reunification, one thing is of note, Bengal was among the few state where pundas were Zamindars:) and atrocity commited by Zamindars is well known, muslims in Bengal were mostly poor farmer, but this partition didn’t acheive the basic goal hence Bengalis reverted back to Bengal.

@calypsodc

I humbly believe that when we stood on the cusp of nationhood and freedom, what was important was equality of all communities . If a person was really an ambassador of Unity, nothing should have made him compromise that position and led to a situation where he tried to work for the betterment of one community while abandoning the other. The Congress and Gandhi had their faults **(I believe Gandhi were too passive and non-violent for my taste. While it is an admirable quality, it would not have got us any independence if Britain was not bankrupted by WW2.This is my personal opinion only.) **Why were political leaders fighting for the betterment of one community over the other instead of focusing on the society as a whole?

Let me play the Devil’s advocate here. Which part of Congress policies were anti society as a whole ? Which policies favoured Hindus over Muslims ? At the same time , I was reading about the 14 points of Jinnah which was a counter to Nehru report and I was unable to understand the logic of some of the points. I had raised that question in the other thread. Can someone care to explain how it was reasonable/unreasonable?

This is what is what I feel is true reality:k:

@calypsodc

Congress was not a party that had closed its membership to muslims. Infact there were muslims congress leaders too. Nobody opposed muslims from joining congress. What membership rights and authorities did hindu congress members have that muslim congress leaders did not have ?

Intially congress had dual memebership, one can be member of Hindu Mahasabha and Congress but dual membership with league wasn’t acceptable,after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, longest president of INC, registered his opposition, dual membership was completely closed.

@muqawwee123

Good point. That raises another question? Did Muslim League accommodated non-Muslim Members?

Yes Some dalits I beleive like jadunath Sarkar, Jinnah claimed League as sole representative of muslims in Simla 1946 conference but paradoxically appointed a hindu dalit leader as representative of muslim league:)

@devilish_angel

agreed but The Congress made no conscious efforts to enlist the Muslim community in its struggle for Indian independence. Although some Muslims were active in the Congress, majority of Muslim leaders did not trust the Hindu predominance and most of the Muslims remained reluctant to join the Congress Party.

Wrong idea. it was congress who stood with ali brothers during khilafat movement, majority of muslims were member of congress, in UP, poor class muslims, lower caste, supported congress and Zamindar caste muslims supported League, Muslim Legue was party of elite class muslims, none of them had international stature of Mahatma, neither were any of them were capable of launching pan india movement like gandhi could.

@devilish_angel

Congress at first was not in favor of partition, they didn’t give importance to muslims

The intereim goverment gave department of finance to Liaquat ali khan, Maulana Abul kalam Azad’s cabinet mission plan was based on provincial autonomy, which meant muslim majority areas will be governed by muslims, but liaquat ali khan created problem as even a peon cannot get appointed without his permission. Most enthusiastic muslims who loved League were Hindustani speakers, but Jinnah got pakistan and moved to karchi, leaving many of them to migr

@muqawwee123

Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan from NWFP resigned Congress and joined Muslim League.
Sardar Abdul rab Nishter was Member of Congress (1927-31) and who after joined ML.
A.K. Fazl ul haq also aliented from Congress where he served as General Secretary in 1916-18

These are the few famous names who alienated Congress and joined ML