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“The strength of the Pakistan programme was its vagueness. It meant everything to everyone.”

  • UPSC 2024
  • Politics of Separatism

The Lahore Resolution of 1940 succeeded politically precisely because it never specified what it actually demanded.

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  • The Deliberate Ambiguity of the Lahore Resolution
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  • Jalal's "Bargaining Counter" Thesis
  • The Costs of Vagueness Once Partition Became Real

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