ABSTRACT
Pakistan is an enigma for many in India. Scholars, political observers and analysts, politicians and civil society activists generally view Pakistan through a prism which is coloured by suspicion and fear. Pakistan is not considered as a normal state by many in India.1 In the general Indian imagination, Pakistan is a creation of the unholy alliance between British imperialism and Muslim nationalism. Muslim nationalism is mainly understood as nothing but Muslim communalism or separatism.2 Muslim nationalism and the consequent movement for Pakistan are always described in the Indian narrative of anti-colonial freedom movement as a tool in the hands of the British Empire to divide the national movement and prolong the achievement of independence from the alien rule.
