Question

In 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal, as president of the Muslim League, reiterated the importance of separate electorates for
the Muslims as an important safeguard for their minority political interests. His statement is supposed to have provided the
lines of his own culture and tradition in his own Indian home-lands is recognised as the basis of a permanent communal
'I have no hesitation in declaring that if the principle that the Indian Muslim is entitled to full and free development on the
intellectuals expressed their concern about the status of Muslims
as a minority within India. They feared that the culture and identity
of minorities would be submerged under the domination of a
Hindu majority
Source D
A community which is inspired by
development on its own lines is not inspired by any feeling of narrow communalism
feelings of ill-will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs, laws,
religions and social institutions of other communities. Nay, it is my duty according to the teachings of the Quran, even to
defend their places of Worship, if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of life and behaviour and
which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature, its thought, its culture and thereby its whole past
as a living operative factor in my present consciousness ...
Communalism in its higher aspect, then, is indispensable to the formation of a harmonious whole in a country like India.
The units of Indian society are not territorial as in European countries ... The principle of European democracy cannot be
applied to India without recognising the fact of communal groups. The Muslim demand for the creation of a Muslim India
within India is, therefore, perfectly justified...
The Hindu thinks that separate electorates are contrary to the spirit of true nationalism, because he understands the
vord "nation" to mean a kind of universal amalgamation in which no communal entity ought to retain its private individuality.
uch a state of things, however, does not exist. India is a land of racial and religious variety. Add to this the general
conomic inferiority of the Muslims, their enormous debt, especially in the Punjab, and their insufficient majorities in some
the provinces, as at present constituted and you will begin to see clearly the meaning of our anxiety to retain separate
ectorates.' this is source d​

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In 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal, as president of the Muslim League, reiterated the importance of separate electorates for

the Muslims as an important safeguard for their minority political interests. His statement is supposed to have provided the

lines of his own culture and tradition in his own Indian home-lands is recognised as the basis of a permanent communal

'I have no hesitation in declaring that if the principle that the Indian Muslim is entitled to full and free development on the

intellectuals expressed their concern about the status of Muslims

as a minority within India. They feared that the culture and identity

of minorities would be submerged under the domination of a

Hindu majority

Source D

A community which is inspired by

development on its own lines is not inspired by any feeling of narrow communalism

feelings of ill-will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs, laws,

religions and social institutions of other communities. Nay, it is my duty according to the teachings of the Quran, even to

defend their places of Worship, if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of life and behaviour and

which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature, its thought, its culture and thereby its whole past

as a living operative factor in my present consciousness ...

Communalism in its higher aspect, then, is indispensable to the formation of a harmonious whole in a country like India.

The units of Indian society are not territorial as in European countries ... The principle of European democracy cannot be

applied to India without recognising the fact of communal groups. The Muslim demand for the creation of a Muslim India

within India is, therefore, perfectly justified...

The Hindu thinks that separate electorates are contrary to the spirit of true nationalism, because he understands the

vord "nation" to mean a kind of universal amalgamation in which no communal entity ought to retain its private individuality.

uch a state of things, however, does not exist. India is a land of racial and religious variety. Add to this the general

conomic inferiority of the Muslims, their enormous debt, especially in the Punjab, and their insufficient majorities in some

the provinces, as at present constituted and you will begin to see clearly the meaning of our anxiety to retain separate

ectorates.' this is source d