Allahabad Address and the Two-Nation Theory |
Allahabad Address 1930: Iqbal’s Call for Muslim State
Muhammad Iqbal delivered his most popular inaugural speech, known as the Allahabad Address, during the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League in Allahabad Address in 1930. In this, he campaigned for the establishment of a Muslim state in north-western India.
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Importance of the Allahabad Address (1930): Pioneering Two-Nation Theory
Iqbal became the first politician to express the Two-Nation Theory, which holds that Muslims as a separate nation should have political independence from other areas and communities of India. Iqbal described his idea for separate nations for the large provinces in northwest India with an overwhelming majority of Muslims in this speech.
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Conclusion
Iqbal suggested Punjab, Province of the North-West, Sindh and Balochistan ought to be combined into one province. He asserted that, whether or not the British Empire was there, the country’s north-western region was destined to come together as a single, self-governing entity. He claimed that this was the only way to end sectarian unrest and restore peace to India.
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| Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), often known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet-philosopher whose works revolved around the intellectual and cultural renewal of the Islamic world as well as the promotion of the philosophy of self-hood.
The Call of the Marching Bell, Gabriel’s Wing, The Rod of Moses, and a portion of Gift from Hijaz are some of his best-known Urdu compositions. The Urdu poet Muhammad Iqbal composed “Sare Jahan se Accha,” technically known as “Tarana-e-Hindi,” as a children’s patriotic song in the ghazal literary form. The poem appeared in print in 1904. |
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