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varna |
the place your jati occupies in the system of social stratitifcation mandated by hindu scripture |
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parricide |
the art of killing ones father, mother or other close relative |
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purna swaraj |
complete independence |
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mohandas |
g's first name |
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jai hind |
nationalists solgan, victory to india |
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direct action day |
Great Calcutta Riot,[1] was on 16 August 1946—a day of widespread riot and manslaughter in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India. |
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qaum |
to vote as a community |
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Hindu Domination |
fear of jinnah |
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Jehad |
holy war |
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Akhand Hindusthan |
United India |
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all india muslim league |
a political party in British India that developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state from British India on the Indian subcontinent |
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Non-cooperation movement |
was the first-ever series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and Civil Disobedience, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. The |
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Rowlatt Acts |
were legislation that imposed authoritarian restrictions upon Indian people. |
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Two-Nation Theory |
the belief that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations who could not live in one country |
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Quaid-e-Azam |
Jinnah emerged as the recognised leader of the Indian Muslims and was popularly known as Quaid-e-Azam (Great Leader |
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The Fourteen Points of Jinnah |
were proposed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah as a constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing India. |
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dharnato |
hire a poor brahmin and he sits on your door step |
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Bhagavadgita |
doing what is right rather than what is expected or what is beneficial |
