The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions – Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy
03/10/2022 https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0
How, when, and why did the two-nation theory emerge? 100 years ago India was never a unified whole. no monolithis set of belief. Hindu comes from the River Sindu. Al hind. Also no sense of muslimsness then.. .. https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=420 why difference in the first plae..https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=1390
once Pak was achieved, Jina realised it was a disaster to play this divide..time to junk the two nation theory..
Why is Pakistan a praetorian state but India is not? https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=1823 when Jinah was trying to drum up support for two nation theory, the main muslim league, including jinnah was mainly feudal landlord.in 1947 ML was intellectually weak, in that vacuum only one institution was strong that was the Army.. Jinnah did not have a vision for Pakistan. No thinking on how do mustlims live together India had a thick layer of institutions..
Was Partition preventable and had it not happened what might have been the consequences? https://youtube.com/embed/BH_61s2fbr0?start=2623&end=3145 Some in Pak feel that the current situation in India proved that the two nation was sound. On the other hand Could we have had a depolitization of religion? Unionist party, faced a new communal drive by Jinnah..
https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=3448 Q what about the future? Uniting does not mean extinguish nation state.. Is there another narrative of unity .. https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=3674 Hoodbhoy Undoing partition is impossible now three states as there would be massive blood letting.. Think of healthy relations, trade etc.. Patnaik.. can we have a common market, freedom of movement.. Hoodboy, Kashmir needs a soft border.. Ketkar: Cold war created situation where this division coudl be sustained.. With the fall of Afghanistan , pakistan's rental value came down. 1979 events..cut off points..
Sukla Sen https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=4535 https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=4564 Congress and its advocacy for the centralised state.. Congress wanted to construct a notion of nation.. India however has been able to keep the state together..
https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=4837 Ashraf Muslims upper echelons of muslims.. dominant in UP, but they are now aware of the fat that they have been taken for a ride.. SAvarkar first wrote of two nationa theory in 1923 before Jinnah
https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=5185 going forward faith has to be on the people.. people to people contact..
Gauhar Raza https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=5320 the generation that had commonality has now goine.. need a stakeholders like culture could be a new entry point .. just let tourist go freely..
Satya Pal https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=5613 why is Bangladesh not prominent in the discussion of unity.. Even though young minds have been poisoned with hate.. there is a group of young people are seeing this..