10 Facts About Two-Nation Theory

Two-Nation Theory asserted that, if the Muslims were bent on the creation of Pakistan, the demand should be conceded in the interest of the safety of India.

Two-Nation Theory asks whether Muslims in the army could be trusted to defend India in the event of Muslims invading India or in the case of a Muslim rebellion.

Two-Nation Theory was from the North West Frontier Province of British India, now in present-day Pakistan.

Two-Nation Theory believed that the partition would be harmful to the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.

Two-Nation Theory argued that Muslims were native to India and had made India their home.

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Two-Nation Theory opposed the partition of India for as long as he lived.

Two-Nation Theory advocated composite Indian nationalism, believing that nations in modern times were formed on the basis of land, culture, and history.

Two-Nation Theory has faced scepticism because Muslims did not entirely separate from Hindus and about one-third of all Muslims continued to live in post-partition India as Indian citizens alongside a much larger Hindu majority.

Two-Nation Theory contended, "The idea of Pakistan was dead at its inception when the majority of Muslims chose to stay back after partition, a truism reiterated in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971".

Two-Nation Theory is of the opinion that the creation of Pakistan rendered it obsolete because the two nations had transformed themselves into Indian and Pakistani nations.