The Muslim leaders believed that Hindus and Muslims were people so distinct that they could not be called a single nation. To safeguard the language, culture and ethnicity of the Muslim folk, it was imperative that a new state be created. These assertions would have made sense if it were the British and the Hindustanis that were splitting a country. But Muslims had ruled the sub-continent for 800 years, how did they end up failing to create a functional identity that did not make them feel displaced? That language, culture and faith were needed additionally made no sense because of the rich diversity within the Muslim populace. And here we are six and a half decades later submerged in our inability to handle our own religious and ethnic diversity. The Muslim faith was not what needed safeguarding back then – this is no safeguarding something that has no real definition to begin with. Rather it was the economic destruction that Muslim leaders of the time saw heading towards them at full speed. In a manner of speaking Muslims acted just as they always had in the context of the subcontinent: with a grand self-obsession and need for special treatment.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:58:17 +0000
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