(Democracy Dialogue lecture Video) The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions by Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy

 

The 19th lecture in the Democracy Dialogues series  was delivered by Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy on 9 October 2022 where he  spoke on "The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions "

Topic: The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions

Seventy five years after the communal storm of 1947 countless important questions still remain. From among them I will concentrate upon three which are particularly important in understanding the past but which, in addition, continue to influence current trajectories.                                                                                                                                                                1. How, when, and why did the two-nation theory emerge?

2. Why is Pakistan a praetorian state but India is not?

3. Was Partition preventable and had it not happened what might have been the consequences?

Speaker: Pervez Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist, a frequent commentator on Pakistani television channels, founder-director of The Black Hole in Islamabad, and an author. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University for 47 years.