Pakistan Affairs · Ideological foundations. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
The Two-Nation Theory says that the Muslims and Hindus of India were two separate nations, not two communities inside one nation. They differed in religion, law, culture, history and way of life. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan is usually named as the first to put this view, after the Urdu-Hindi controversy of 1867.
The idea then grew into a demand for territory. Iqbal proposed a Muslim state in the north-west in 1930, Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined the name Pakistan in 1933, and Jinnah told the Lahore session in March 1940 that Muslims were a nation by any definition.
The Ideology of Pakistan adds that this nation needed its own state, where Muslims could live by Islamic values.
Students credit the name 'Pakistan' to Iqbal or to the Lahore Resolution. Iqbal proposed a Muslim state without naming it, the name came from Choudhry Rahmat Ali in 1933, and the 1940 resolution did not use the word.
Answer: No. It contradicts the Two-Nation Theory, which treats Muslims as a separate nation with a right to their own state.
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