Topic: The Freedom Struggle — its various stages and important contributors/contributions from different parts of the country.
1) Noakhali presented for Gandhi the first field demonstration of two-nation theory in its intense and most frightening form, Analyse the role played by Gandhi in the situation. (250 words)
Why this question:
The article examines the role played by Mahatma Gandhi’s in Noakhali, where widespread communal riots had broken out after Partition.
Key demand of the question:
Narrate the situation of two nation theory that was put forth in Noakhali during the partition and the role that Mahatma Gandhi played in resolving the situation.
Directive:
Analyze – When asked to analyse, you have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them as a whole in a summary.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
First explain what the Noakhali incident was.
Body:
Communal violence had broken out on October 10, 1946, and rapidly swept the district of Noakhali; poor Hindu families slaughtered, women raped and murdered and forcible conversions.
Then explain in what way Noakhali presented for Gandhi the first field demonstration of two-nation theory in its intense and most frightening form.
Brief on the role played by Gandhi to resolve the situation.
Conclusion:
Conclude with significance of the outcome of the Noakhali incidence in the history of modern India even as of today.
