my2cents
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Not much erudition is needed to blow holes into this preposterous idea; perhaps one reason why nobody spends time on it may be because the people for whom it was visualised have done their best to blow holes in it themselves.
There were Muslims who promoted this idea, and our shallow learning on display assumes that it was a purely Muslim intellectual disaster, and continues from there. The trajectory the criticism follows is to show, perfectly fairly, that Muslims gained nothing by segregating themselves, but lost massively instead. Not a difficult argument, indeed, one which springs out of the pages of every contemporary newspaper published in Pakistan or in Bangladesh. But not the main argument, certainly not the sole argument.
There were also, it is amusing to note, obscurantist and fanatic Hindus who promoted this idea. those Hindus, like their Muslim counterparts, were proved wrong, for rather different reasons. Naturally, they too, will not shout out their defeat from the rooftops.
Why are those of liberal views and modernising dispositions silent? I have a clue, but that is all that is.
Lets look at Pakistani leaders view point. They were of the opinion that Indian secular make up will not last and we would break up into smaller provinces. What they failed to realize that people with different faiths will fall in line when they have equal stake in the process. So, if remain secular, united and prosperous then we would have failed their two nation theory once again.