separate from the projected independent nation of India. The league wanted a separate nation for India’s Muslims because it feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus. Jinnah and the Muslim League led the struggle for the partition of British India into separate Hindu and Muslim states‚ and after the formation of Pakistan in 1947 the league became Pakistan’s dominant political party. In that year it was renamed the All Pakistan Muslim League. But the league functioned less
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other brother‚ Harindranath was a poet‚ dramatist‚ and actor. Career Indian Freedom Fighter Sarojini Naidu (extreme right) with Mahatma Gandhi during Salt Satyagraha‚ 1930 Sarojini Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came into contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚ Rabindranath Tagore‚ Muhammad Ali Jinnah‚ Annie Besant‚ C. P. Ramaswami Iyer‚ Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.[6] During 1915-1918‚ she traveled to different regions in India delivering
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Prepared by: Altaf Ahmed Sheikh - CSS - 2011 Altafsheikh1988@gmail.com Composed by: Redmax! PAKISTAN AFFAIRS STUDY PLAN Study Area – I: Evolution of Muslim Society in the Sub-Continent 2007 – Critically evaluate the contribution made by missionaries in the growth of Muslim society in the Sub-continent of Indo-Pak. 2006 – Describe the most notable feature of Muslims in India in the light of their monotheistic religion and egalitarian social structure. 2005 – Summarize the political scene of the sub
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dominates our memory because of his documentary “Stop Genocide” made during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Zahir Raihan was born on 19 August 1935‚ in the village Majupur‚ at Feni. His father was a professor of Calcutta Alia Madrasha. After the Partition of Bengal in 1947‚ he along with his parents returned back to their own village. . Early stage of his life Zahir passed the Matriculation in 1950 from Amirabad High School and completed his ISc. from Dhaka College. He obtained BA (Hon) in
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The rapport between India and Pakistan since 1947 has been distressed and unfriendly‚ Marked by indiscriminating communal massacres at the time of partition of British India; three wars and countless trivial conflicts and clashes afterwards. One critical factor in this history has been the pre- partition heritage of the two political movements that dominated the political environment of India before and after independence- The Indian National Congress and the Muslim League. Most of the political
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the national all-India scene in 1905 with the Swadeshi movement - the term is usually rendered as "self reliance" or "self sufficiency".[1] Lal-Bal-Pal‚ mobilized Indians across the country against the Bengal partition‚ and the demonstrations‚ strikes and boycotts of English goods that began in Bengal soon spread to other regions in a broader protest against the Raj Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928‚ Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਲਜਪਤ ਰਾਯ‚ Urdu: لالا لجپت راے; Hindi: लाला लाजपत राय) was an Indian author and politician who
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has virtually ‘indianized’ English in his narrative‚ Narayan forte is his genial ironic comedy‚ whereas Anand’s strength lies in the pathos of the lives of his characters.” Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peskawar in the year 1905‚ which saw the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzen. Anand‚ son of a soldier‚ was educated in the cantonment schools. After completing graduation he went to London to study philosophy under Prof. Dames hicks‚ the great Kantian scholar. When Anand took to pen‚ Indian
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to be an Indian” India is a great country with many religions. It has rich natural resources and lengthy frontier with vast region. North has The Himalayas and south with the Hindu ocean‚ Bay of Bengal in the east and the west has the sea Arabian. It’s being administered with language wise partition. All are leading peaceful life with national integration. Enemy’s conspiracy is impossible with the unity of the nation. Festivals are celebrated here with memorable function. People help each
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Singh recreates a tiny village in the Punjabi countryside and its people in that fateful summer.When the flood of refugees and the inter-communal bloodletting from Bengal to the Northwest Frontier at last touches them‚ many ordinary men and women are bewildered‚ victimized‚ and torn apart. Plot It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra‚ avillage on the border of India and Pakistan. Then‚ a local money-lender is murdered‚ and suspicion fallsupon
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Independence of India ¤ Sailing of San Gabriel To India When the San Gabriel sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to finally dock at Calicut‚ a prosperous port and an independent principality on the Malabar Coast in May‚ 1498‚ half a century of the Portuguese tentative to find a sea route to India was finally crowned with success. The man behind the quest was Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) – a devout Roman Catholic whose nightlong vigil in a Lisbon chapel before commending himself to the unsure
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