Two-nation theory

The two-nation theory is the basis for the justification of Pakistan as its own state on the Indian subcontinent. It says that Muslims and Hindus can not live together in the same country because of their different religions.

The theory is based on the inaugural speech of the newly elected president of the Alli -Indian Muslim League ( AIML ), Muhammad Iqbal, at the party conference in Allahabad on December 29, 1930:

The later founder and first head of state of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah took up the idea of an independent state for the Indian Muslims in his speech at a meeting of the Muslim League on March 22, 1940:

The next day, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution.

The two-nation theory was not supported by the whole Indian independence movement. The majority of Hindu Indian National Congress ( INC) rejected it because he considered himself a secular organization and religious subjects did not want to include in the founding of the state. The supporters of the two-nation theory prevailed, which led to the implementation of Mountbattenplans for partition of British India into the two countries of India and Pakistan.