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The Pakistan movement converted a cultural and religious entity of a people into a separatist political force. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Politics of Separatism

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Indian Muslims long existed as a religiously and culturally identifiable community, but their transformation into a unified political demand for a sovereign state was a distinctly twentieth-century construction, not a natural or inevitable outcome of that religious identity.

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  • Muslims as a Religio-Cultural Entity, Not a Political Bloc
  • The Political Conversion: Ideology and Organization
  • The Electoral Vindication and Its Limits
  • Conclusion
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