CHAPTER 8
Challenges of Nation-Building
CHAPTER AT A GLANCE
- Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of free India, addressed a special session of the Constituent Assembly at the hour of midnight on 14-15 August 1947. This was the famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech.
- ‘Naksh-e-Fariyadi’, ‘Dast-e-Saba’ and ‘Zindan-Nama’ are collections of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry.
- Amrita Pritam was the editor of ‘Nagmani’ (a Punjabi monthly magazine).
- Kasr-e-Nafsi (modesty, humbleness) is an Urdu short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto.
- As per the ‘two-nation theory’ propagated by the Muslim League, India consisted of not one but two people, Hindus and Muslims.
- India was partitioned on the ‘principle of religious majorities’.
- Lahore, Calcutta (Kolkata ...
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