Volume-II, Special Issue, February 2026
Novel Insights A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Multidisciplinary Research Journal |
Volume-II, Special Issue, February 2026 |
Creation of Bangladesh Out of the Chaos of Pakistan: Showing Religious Theory of Nationhood as a Hoax Dr. Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Dept of English, Chanchal College, Malda, West Bengal, India Email: siddharthasankarghosh@hotmail.com |
Received: 01.01.2026 | Accepted: 20.02.2026 | Published Online: 28.02.2026 |
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At the threshold of Indian independence, the internal politics of the subcontinent took a bizarre turn when religion became one of the determining factors. The British and the leaders of Indian National Congress and All-India Muslim League were entrapped in an imbroglio of indecision. Ultimately, Gandhian brigade had to swallow the bitter pill of Partition to rein the unbridled stallion of communal violence. But within a quarter-century, the erstwhile successful two-nation theory proved to be a fiasco when East Pakistan revolted against its western wing and seceded from it to shape a sovereign country called Bangladesh in 1971. The corrosive policies of West Pakistan lacerated the ethnic integrity of the Bengali Muslims and gashed the idea of Islamic brotherhood preached in 1947. My research paper intends to show how the liberation of Bangladesh falsified the two-nation theory. It will also try to analyse why and how the brittleness of religious theory dismantled the idea of building a nation based on only religion. Keywords: Congress, League, Partition, Two-nation theory, West Pakistan, Bangladesh | ||