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Road to Partition

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The Soul Spokesman, Jina, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

Aisha Jalal is a professor of history at Tufts University. She says religion was important in India prior to the British, but not as much as it is today. The caste system created rigid social and economic divisions between communities. Aisha suggests that while there were periodic flare-ups between groups, the question of the capital M facing the capital H is a British construct.

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