ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 argued that the Morley-Minto reforms introduced the politics of communalism between Hindu and Muslim and that this politically constructed division was used by the Indian political elites in both the INC and the Muslim League to further their own political ambitions. After 1947 this division had manifested into two dominant schools of thought – a secular India and a Muslim Pakistan. Such was the dominance of these two adversarial positions led by Jinnah for the League and Nehru for the INC that they eclipsed all other options and opinions, but not only were other options eclipsed but became regarded as being out of touch with the reality of the politics of the day. In other words a secular India and a Muslim (later Islamic) Pakistan became real.
