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The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled “Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan” written by Shri M.J. Akbar at a function here today. Addressing on the occasion he has said that the book dilates on a concept. As with other ideas, their interpretation and actualisation is time and space specific. Some in Pakistan seeking empowerment and legitimisation read into it a political agenda and a military strategy. A great many scholars and practitioners of Islam the world over would interpret and practice it differently. Nor should it be forgotten that in the eighties of the last century, the term was lauded and lionised in many of the chancelleries of the world!
The Vice President has said that one aspect of the past needs a corrective. It is purveyed that the Muslims of British India opted for a separate homeland in 1947. Who and how many exercised the option? It is forgotten that universal adult suffrage did not exist prior to 1950. Voting rights were based on property, taxes, service in the military forces and literacy and were enjoyed by about 11 percent of the population. Commenting on the election of 1946, the historian Ayesha Jalal has observed that in the Punjab, only a third of the total votes was cast.
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