The two-nation theory was an ideology of religious nationalism that advocated Muslim Indian nationhood, with separate homelands for Indian Muslims and Indian Hindus within a decolonised British India, which ultimately led to the partition of India in 1947. [1]

The two-nation theory was a founding principle of the Pakistan Movement (i.e. the ideology of Pakistan as a Muslim nation-state in South Asia), and the partition of India in 1947. The ideology that religion is the determining factor in defining the nationality of Indian Muslims and Hindus was postulated by Muhammad Ali Jinnah , who termed it as ...

5 天之前 · The Two Nation Theory is a concept in South Asian history that played a pivotal role in the creation of Pakistan in 1947. It was a political and ideological framework advanced by Muslim leaders in British India.

2018年1月1日 · “Two-Nation Theory” refers to the thesis that Hindus and Muslims in India were two distinct communities that could not coexist within a single state without dominating and discriminating against the other or without constant conflict; it resulted in the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.

2024年5月27日 · The two-Nation Theory is a political theory that supports dividing India officially into Pakistan and India. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was regarded as the main architect of the Two-Nation theory because he used a novel figure of speech to …

2025年1月10日 · This article examines the evolution of the Two-Nation Theory through key events and policies, such as the Partition of Bengal, the Morley-Minto Reforms, and the Communal Award.

2020年8月29日 · The general understanding of two nation theory is that Hindus and Muslims are two distinct nations, indeed two different civilisations, that are unique, as Jinnah put it, in their “culture and civilisation, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of value and proportion, legal laws and moral codes, customs ...

The two-nation theory is an ideology of religious nationalism which significantly influenced the Indian subcontinent following its independence from the British Empire. The plan to partition British India into two states was announced on 3rd June 1947.

2023年11月1日 · Two-Nation Theory, long regarded as the linchpin of the partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947, has come under scrutiny by revisionist scholars who seek to challenge and question the...

The two-nation theory in its simplest way means that cultural, political, religious, economic and social dissimilarities between the two major communities, Hindus and Muslims of the Sub-continent.