Who proposed 2 nation theory??

Popular politicians like Shahshi Tharoor have seen making statements like Savarkar was the proponent of 2 nation theory… Even alleges that Savarkar was in support of Partition and was collaborating with Jinnah and muslim league. Let’s check reality of this..

Before going to Savarkar and Jinnah first know about Syed Ahmed Khan who was the founder of Aligarh muslim university..He is regarded as the principal architect of the Two-Nation theory as he provided a modern idiom in which to express the quest for Islamic identity. During his addresses in 1887-1888 he announced that Hindus and Muslims are 2 nations.

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At that time Savarkar was barely 4 or 5 years old. And then who demanded seperate electorials and Bengal partition in 1905?? Savarkar?? Hindu Mahasabha ?? NO!!!It was muslim league incorporating with British demanded these.

Then again in 1931 then president of muslim league Muhammed Iqbal in his presidential address demanded North western frontier provinces to be seperated from other part of British India to form a separate nation.

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Actually the 2 nation theory started to appear in horizon in 19th century and the events like Demand for seperate electorial, Bengal partition and Khilafat movement added fuel to it… It was clearly visible in main stream politics of India after 1920, after Khilafat, the religious riots become very frequent. And at last congress leaders also had left with no option, to agree with muslim league..

Savarkar has said that Hindus and muslims are 2 different nations. According to his view a nation is a unit based on cultural & history & religious values, where country is based on geographic limits, & control by common a law for all the people, so when he said nation it means rashtra…hindu & Muslim rashtra, but he never supported partitions because he said whoever considers this land as pithrubhumi(ancestral land)and punyabhumi(holy land) is all Hindu. He wanted 2 nations(communities ) to live under same constitution without partition.

Now look into Ambedkar’s Book ‘Pakistan or partition of India’

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Ambedkar disagree with some of Savarkar’s opinions, still he says that Savarkar’s stand towards pakistan has boldness, frankness definiteness while congress apporoach is indefinite, vague and irritating.

He agrees that Hindus and Muslims live in seperate worlds of their own and complete population exchange is the only solution to this problem. He mentions about Syed Ahmed Khan and how Muslim canonical law played important role in partition.

But unfortunately people who accuse Savarkar as communal doesn’t have any problem with Ambedkar’s views.. Nobody accuses Ambedkar as Islamophobic or supporter of 2 nation theory.. Strange …

Hindu mahasabha and Savarkar opposed partition with tooth and nail..

You can see lot of Government archive documents of that time in which Anti- paksitan stand has been taken by Savarkar and Hindu mahasabha