Pakistan Declaration
The Pakistan Declaration (titled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?) was a pamphlet published in January 1933 by Choudhary Rahmat Ali,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] in which the word Pakistan was used for the first time.[9] on the 28th of January in 1933, in which the word Pakstan (without the letter "i") was used for the first time and was circulated to the delegates of the Third Round Table Conference in 1933.[10]
The pamphlet was written when Pakistan was part of British India. The pamphlet asked that "the five Northern units of India" - Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan (or Pakstan)[11] become an independent state and not part of India.
After the pamphlet was published the name of Pakistan became very popular and led to the Pakistan Movement. Fourteen years after the pamphlet was published, in 1947, Pakistan became an independent state.[9]
Proposed maps and names[edit]
Ali had published several pamphlets where he listed himself as the "Founder of the Pakistan National Movement", In these pamphlets Ali had added various maps of the subcontinent with potential names that the new proposed nation might have according to him. Haideristan, Siddiqistan, Faruqistan, Muinistan, Maplistan, Safiistan and Nasaristan were some of these names.[12] Safiistan and Nasaristan nations were proposed on the map of Sri Lanka.[13]
In his maps he had renamed the Indian subcontinent as 'Pakasia' and more often as 'Dinia', (an anagram of "India" with position of 'D' changed). Dinia was represented with dependencies Pakistan, Osmanistan (representing Hyderabad Deccan and neighbouring areas) and Bangistan (representing Bengal). He proposed the former Muslim provinces of Eastern Bengal and Assam in East India to become Bangistan, an independent Muslim state for Bengali, Assamese and Bihari Muslims. He proposed the princely Hyderabad State, to become an Islamic monarchy called Osmanistan.[14][15] Ali also renamed the seas around the Indian subcontinent, and referred the seas around landmass of Dinia as the Bangian, Pakian and Osmanian seas that were his proposed names for the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean respectively.[12][13]
These alternate geographical maps of the subcontinent were followed by the mention of Rahmat Ali’s position as the "founder of the Siddiqistan, Nasaristan and Safiistan National Movements".[12]
Mian Abdul Haq, a contemporary of Rahmat Ali at the University of Cambridge, stated that, after 1935, Rahmat Ali's mental makeup changed resulting from a study of "major Nazi works, of which he knew many passages by heart".[16]
References[edit]
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- ↑ Pakistan, the enigma of political development, by Lawrence Ziring, p. 67
- ↑ Iqbal, an illustrated biography by Khurram Ali Shafique, p. 131
- ↑ India-Pakistan in war & peace, Jyotindra Nath Dixit p. 10
- ↑ The Great Divide: Muslim Separatism and Partition By S.C. Bhatt, p. 70
- ↑ Historiography of India's Partition: An Analysis of Imperialist Writings By Viśva Mohana Pāndeya p. 15
- ↑ Governments and politics of South Asia J. C. Johari, p. 208
- ↑ Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession By Aleksandar Pavković, Peter Radan p. 103
- ↑ A history of Pakistan: past and present Muḥammad ʻAbdulʻaziz, p. 162
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Nationalists who made the difference... - DAWN Group of Newspapers, 2006". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2008-11-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Aziz (1987), p. 89.
- ↑ THE HISTORY MAN: Cambridge remembers Rahmat Ali —Ihsan Aslam - Daily Times
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "KARACHI: Learning from history". DAWN.COM. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Jacobs, Frank (5 March 2014). "Purist Among the Pure: the Forgotten Inventor of Pakistan". Big Think. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ↑ Jalal, Self and Sovereignty (2002), pp. 392–393.
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