Saturday, 10 May 2014
PAK301 - Pakistan Studies- Assignment No. 01 Solution Last Date May 16, 2014 Written Updates
Question No. 1 5 Marks
Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founding father of Pakistan after coming into politics struggled hard for Hindu Muslim unity when he was a member of both organizations Congress and Muslim League. He resigned from the membership of Congress in 1920, and started working for the betterment and welfare of the Muslim community of the Subcontinent. What were the main events in the history of Subcontinent that led to the transformation of Jinnah from an Indian nationalist to Muslim Nationalist?
Justify your answer with at least 5 such incidents:
Question No. 2 5 Marks
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was a distinguished leader of his time. He always emphasized that the Muslims of Subcontinent must learn English language so that they might have the capability to deal with the changed circumstances. Even today we are far behind than the Hindus in this particular discipline. Was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan right?
Justify your answer with at least five advantages of learning English with special focus on the state of English as a discipline in Pakistan.
Answer Of Question No. 1 5 Marks
Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founding father of Pakistan after coming into politics struggled hard for Hindu Muslim unity when he was a member of both organizations Congress and Muslim League. He resigned from the membership of Congress in 1920, and started working for the betterment and welfare of the Muslim community of the Subcontinent. What were the main events in the history of Subcontinent that led to the transformation of Jinnah from an Indian nationalist to Muslim Nationalist?
Justify your answer with at least 5 such incidents?
Answer:
Jinnah had always advocated the cause of Hindu Muslim unity and while still member of the Congress, he joined All India Muslim League in 1913 to become a bridge between the two major communities of India. This bridge resulted into the signing of famous Congress - Muslim League Pact of 1916, known popularly as Lucknow Pact - the only pact ever signed between the two political parties. The Lucknow Pact conceded Muslims the right to separate electorate, reservation of seats in the legislatures and weight-age in representation both at the Centre and the minority provinces. It also meant that henceforth All-India Muslim League will be the representative platform for the Muslims. And to Jinnah goes the credit for all this and Jinnah came to be recognized among both Hindus and Muslims as one of India's most outstanding political leaders.
However, while being proponent of Hindu-Muslim unity, Jinnah rejected the injection of violence into politics and Gandhi's Satyagrah (civil disobedience) which meant boycott of government-aided schools and colleges, courts and councils and British textiles. Jinnah felt that Gandhi's doctrine of non-cooperation will lead to despair and resentment. He felt that there was no short-cut to independence and that Gandhi's extra-constitutional methods could only lead to lawlessness and chaos, without bringing India nearer to the threshold of freedom. Therefore Jinnah left the Congress in 1919 to devote himself fully to the cause of the Muslims and the Muslim League.
Jinnah left the Congress ‘because he could not adapt himself to the new and more advanced ideology and even more so because he dislike the crowds of ill-dressed people talking in Hindustani
Gandhian methodology for the solution of political problems would do great harm than good to especially the Muslims, as indeed it did.
