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PAKISTAN OR THE PARTITION OF INDIA

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PAKISTAN OR THE PARTITION OF INDIA BY Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR

“More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar, Utterly this fair garden we might win”

Quotation from the title page of

“Thoughts on Pakistan.” (1st Ed.) [Reprint of the Edition of 1946]

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THACKER & Co’s EDITIONS FIRST PUBLISHED : DECEMBER 1940 SECOND EDITION : FEBRUARY 1945 THIRD EDITION : 1946 GOVT. OF MAHARASHTRA’S FIRST EDITION : JANUARY 1990

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INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY

OF RAMU As a token of my appreciation of her goodness of heart, her nobility of mind and her purity of character and also for the cool fortitude and readiness to suffer along with me which she showed in those friendless days of want and worries which fell to our lot.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ... ... 1 — 3 PROLOGUE ... ... ... 5 — 6 INTRODUCTION ... ... ... 7 — 18 PART I—MUSLIM CASE FOR PAKISTAN

CHAPTER I—What does the League Demand ? ... 21 — 28 CHAPTER II—A Nation Calling for a Home ... 29 — 39 CHAPTER III—Escape from Degradation ... 41 — 49 PART II—HINDU CASE AGAINST PAKISTAN CHAPTER IV—Break-up of Unity ... ... 53 — 66 CHAPTER V—Weakening of the Defences ... 67 — 101 CHAPTER VI—Pakistan and Communal Peace ... 103 — 126 PART III—WHAT IF NOT PAKISTAN ?

CHAPTER VII—Hindu Alternative to Pakistan ... 129 — 194 CHAPTER VIII—Muslim Alternative to Pakistan ... 195 — 203 CHAPTER IX—Lessons from Abroad ... 205 — 221 PART IV—PAKISTAN AND THE MALAISE CHAPTER X—Social Stagnation ... ... 225 — 248 CHAPTER XI—Communal Aggression ... 249 — 270 CHAPTER XII—National Frustration ... 271 — 344 PART V CHAPTER XIII—Must There be Pakistan? ... ... 347 — 368 CHAPTER XIV—The Problems of Pakistan ... ... 369 — 384 CHAPTER XV—Who Can Decide? ... ... 385 — 403 EPILOGUE ... ... ... ... ... 405 — 416 APPENDICES ... ... ... ... ... 417 — 480 INDEX ... ... ... ... ... 481 — 483 MAPS ... ...

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MESSAGE v PREFACE vii DISCOUNT POLICY ON SALE OF VOLUMES

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