Setara bibi under the lamp post - Literature - observerbd.com : The glittering city aroundLife is rich with red, blue light of neonWide sky over the headPieces of moonlight, scatteredAnd in that splashed pieces of meteorThose are taken by the scientists of NASASo height the civilization reachesThis city is the flow of happiness nowSome men like us pass the wayWith frustration
It
was observed that the first part of the British Raj was the privilege of the
Hindus. They were awarded by the British in all the sectors of the
socio-economic life. At that time the Hindus took all the opportunities by
their lords and became advanced in all spheres of life. But the Muslims
remained far from these changes due to the orthodox principality.
In
the course of time the coins showed their back sides and situation changed.
After many years of Indian Rebellion of 1857 the Raj took the Divide
and Rule policy1. The Muslims got a little bit blessings of
the British at first through the policy of Hindi-Urdu controversy. But till
then the Muslims were a backward community in respect of politics. The Indian
Councils Act of 1892 was a proof of this claim.
In
1905 when the newly appointed Viceroy Lord Minto declared constitutional
reforms. The Muslims took the opportunity to get a break from the Raj. They
decided to meet the Lord and proposed the separate electorate for the Muslims.
On October 01, 1906 the delegation convened the Lord at Simla historically
known as Simla Deputation. The deputation was a successful one. This was the
original starting of the Pakistan movement. The Morley-Minto Reforms2 of
1909 passed the demand of separate electorates of Muslims. Muslims got a
separate identity. Since then Muslims got a platform to think of a different
nation-state.
The
dream was not such a true one as it can be thought nowadays. There was a long
way to reach the goal. The Britishers maintained a balance of their policy. They were not the friends of the Muslims
always but used the Muslims in order to make an alternative of Privileged
Hindus. At the time of separation the Hindu-British pact were so strong
that it was very hard for M. A. Jinnah to bargain for a state. But the rigidity of
the Quaid-e-Azam3
made him able to get two moth-eaten small pieces of land. This
was the reality of the Muslims. This is the history of the Indian Muslims.
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