Pakistanism or Pakistanization [1] is a neologism that refers to the continual division of any society along religious lines,[citation needed] with reference to the Partition of British India in 1947.
In Europe, Alija Izetbegović, the first President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, began to embrace the "Pakistan model" in the 1960s, alienating Serbs who would use this ideology to attack Bosniaks later on,[2] while in his Islamic Declaration he "designated Pakistan as a model country to be emulated by Muslim revolutionaries worldwide."[3]
Some West Africans were inspired by the Indian independence movement.[4] In 1920, educated West Africans formed the National Congress of British West Africa, which modeled its name on the Indian National Congress.[5] According to Ali Mazrui, the facet of the Indian independence movement West Africans found most admirable was the Indian peoples' unity during the struggle.[4] In 1936, H. O. Davies said,
"Africans should follow India – the only way is for Africans to co-operate and make sacrifices in the struggle for freedom."[4]
According to Ali Mazrui,
"But the emergence of the Muslim League in India as a serious secessionist movement soon shattered the myth of unity in the Indian model. A new word entered the vocabulary of West African nationalism – the word was 'pakistanism'."[4]
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Nigeria's Nnamdi Azikiwe became concerned about possible Pakistanization in their respective countries and Africa as a whole.[4][6][7] The Convention People's Party's 1954 Election Manifesto contain the following message:
"We have seen the tragedy of religious communalism in India and elsewhere. Don't let us give it a chance to take root and flourish in Ghana. Down with Pakistanism!"[8]
- ^ Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2010). Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era (5th ed.). Pretoria, South Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: New Africa Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
- ^ Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea, Hurst Publishers, (2013), p. 248
- ^ Vjekoslav Perica, Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States, Oxford University Press (2002), p. 77
- ^ a b c d e Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin (1978). Political Values and the Educated Class in Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 104. ISBN 0-520-03292-6. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ^ Chamberlain, Muriel Evelyn (1999). Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 0-631-21602-2. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
guardian1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Azikiwe, Nnamdi (1961). Zik: a selection from the speeches of Nnamdi Azikiwe. London: Cambridge University Press. p. 173. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin (1978). Political Values and the Educated Class in Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-520-03292-6. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
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