Posted on 20 August 2011. Tags: Gandhi, Jaswant Singh, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Nehru, Pakistan, Patel
It is amazing that that the events of sixty years ago are so fresh in the minds of at least two generations of South Asians. The happenings of the British Raj are being discussed like Americans discuss sport events or Indians dissect the last soap or movie out of Bollywood. Vibrant democracies project different opinions and [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 19 May 2011. Tags: Jinnah, Jinnah's Cabinet Mission, Nehru
British rule and its tail end haunt South Asians. Each country has its own version of history–clinging to their version of events. Despite thousands of books written on the events of 1946 and 1947, there is no consensus either about the events, or their motives. Investigating history is a dangerous endeavour in Delhi. Discussing Jinnah [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 23 March 2011.
WHY WE CREATED PAKISTAN? The Indus Valley Civilization now known as Paksitan Pakistan existed 5000 years ago as the IVC The Pakistan Ideology Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | DefensebriefsIntellibriefs RSS feed: | RUPEE NEWS | October [...]
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Posted in Independence movement
Posted on 24 December 2010. Tags: Happy Birthday Mohammad Ali Jinnah-Quad e Azam
What is strange about this entire discussion is the way it has shaken the Indian psyche. Challenging the historiography of the events of 1947 is a difficult task. Many have tried it. Rammanohar Lohia wrote a book titled “Guilty men of India’s partition” (Published by Kitabistan, 1960). However that earlier work was largely ignored by [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 30 August 2010. Tags: 100 years of bias and bigotry against Muslims created Pakistan
”Tis the season of mellow fruitfulness, close bosom friend of the conspiring sun–and “til the season of the breakup of the BJP and the season of the ascendancy of Jinnah’s stature in the land of Ganges. ‘Tis the season for writing about Mohammad Ali Jinnah and discussing the events of 1947. The newspapers are full [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 16 August 2010. Tags: Direct Action Day
Direct Action Day: August 16th, 1956–the day the Hindus rioted to partition Bengal. Hindu public opinion was mobilised around the Akhand Hindusthan (United India) slogan. Certain Congress leaders in Bengal imbibed a strong sense of Hindu identity, especially in view of the perceived threat from the Pakistan movement. Field Marshal Viscount Wavell estimated that appreciably [...]
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Posted in British Raj, Independence movement
Posted on 13 August 2010. Tags: Thank you Jinnah--The Great Leader
What is strange about this entire discussion is the way it has shaken the Indian psyche. Challenging the historiography of the events of 1947 is a difficult task. Many have tried it. Rammanohar Lohia wrote a book titled “Guilty men of India’s partition” (Published by Kitabistan, 1960). However that earlier work was largely ignored by [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 13 August 2010. Tags: Pakistani Indus Valley Civilization
WHY WE CREATED PAKISTAN? The Indus Valley Civilization now known as Paksitan Pakistan existed 5000 years ago as the IVC The Pakistan Ideology by Moin-Ansari Original March 16th, 1996 and Updated August 16th, 2008 Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | ??????? ????? | ???? | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ??????? [...]
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Posted in Independence movement
Posted on 24 June 2010. Tags: Jinnah, Russia, USA
Margaret Bourke-White was a correspondent and photographer for LIFE magazine during the WW II years. In September 1947, White went to Pakistan. She met Jinnah and wrote about what she found and heard in her book Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India,Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949. The following are the excerpts: [...]
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