Challenges Of Nation Building
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When did India get independent?
15 August 1947
Tryst with destiny speech was given where?
Special session of constituent assembly
Two goals, everyone agreed upon
• After independence, the country shall be run through democratic government. • Government will be run for the good of all, particularly the poor and socially disadvantaged groups.
India was born under very difficult circumstances. Elaborate.
• Freedom came with the partition of the country. • It was an year of unprecedented violence and trauma of displacement.
What were the three challenges?
• Shape a nation that was united yet accommodative of diversity in our society. • Established democracy. • Ensure development and well-being of entire society, not only some sections
Dawn of freedom was taken from?
Subh-e-azadi
Who wrote Dawn of freedom?
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Today I called Waris Shah is taken from?
“Aaj akhan Waris Shah Nun”
Who wrote today I called Waris Shah
Amrita Pritam
After partition_____ was divided into two countries ______ and_____
British India, India, Pakistan
What was two nation theory?
It was the theory that India constituted of not one, but two ‘ people’ Hindus and Muslims. That is why it demanded Pakistan a separate country for Muslims.
The two nation theory was given by?
Muslim league
What are the points in process of partition?
• Followed principle of religious majority. • No single belt of Muslim majority in British India. There were two areas of concentration, east and West. So western East Pakistan were separated by long expanse of Indian territory. • Not all areas with Muslim majority wanted to be in Pakistan. • Muslim majority provinces were Punjab and Bengal but they also had large number of non-Muslims. These provinces were bifurcated according to religious majority at DISTRICT LEVEL. • The problem of minorities.
Minorities faced ______
Lack of safety and trauma
What were the three communal zones?
Lahore, Amritsar, and Kolkata
Consequences of partition?
• Muslims avoided going to areas with Hindu and Sikh population and vice versa. • People went through immense sufferings. Minority fled their home and secured temporary shelter in refugee camps. • Women were abducted made to convert their religion and forced into marriage. • for lakhs of refugees, the countries, freedom meant life and refugee camps for months and even years. • Write a poet and film makers in India and Pakistan express, ruthless, killing and suffering in novels and films. “ division of hearts” is what partition is known as.
How many people migrated across new border?
80 lakh
How many people were killed due to violence?
5 to 10 lakh
Even after large scale, migration of Muslims to Pakistan, Muslim population in India accounted for ___% of total population in 1951
10 to 12
_________ was formed to protect interests of Muslims in colonial India
Muslim league
In India, most leaders cherished, which ideal
Cherished the ideal of a secular nation
British India was divided into?
British Indian provinces and princely states
What are British Indian provinces?
These were directly under the control of British government
What are Princely states?
Large and small states ruled by Princes. They enjoyed some control over our internal affairs as long as they ACCEPTED BRITISH SUPREMACY