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Tag: 1948 CE
MK Gandhi on Kashmir Issue : Speech at the Prayer Meeting on 4th January 1948
The matter is now before the UNO. It cannot be withdrawn from there. But if India and Pakistan come to a settlement the big powers in the UNO will have to endorse that settlement. They will not object to the settlement. They themselves can only say that they will do their best to see that the two countries arrive at an understanding through mutual discussions.
My Fast as a Protest – Gandhi’s Speech on the eve of last fast-12/01/1948
Death for me would be a glorious deliverance rather than that I should be a helpless witness of the destruction of India, Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam. That destruction is certain if Pakistan ensures no equality of status and security of life and property for all professing the various faiths of the world, and if India copies her
East Bengal is one of Pakistan’s most powerful components- Martial Spirit of East Pakistan-Speech by Jinnah (20/03/1948)
Now, in free Pakistan which is going to be a great nation, one of the largest in the world, you have under sovereign, independent, free Pakistan, every opportunity to revise your martial spirit and show to the world what --Bengal can do.
Student’s Role in Nation Building-Jinnah at Dhaka University 24/03/1948
The State language therefore, must obviously be Urdu, a language that has been nurtured by a hundred million Muslims of this sub-continent, a language understood throughout the length and breadth of Pakistan and above all a language which, more than any other provincial language, embodies the best that is in Islamic culture and Muslim tradition and is nearest to the language used in other Islamic countries.
Message to the Nation by Jinnah on occasion of first Anniversary of Pakistan on 14/08/1948
The story of the millions of refugees who had to flee from their homes across our borders and seek asylum in Pakistan is well known to you all. The tragedy occurred even before our State had had time to settle down. In fact it involved also a large proportion of the people who as Government personnel, were to set up the very machinery of the State.
Mahatma Gandhi, A Tribute By Acharya J B Kripalini-31/01/1948
Gandhiji always held that the rigour of the moral law required that one must magnify one's own faults and those of ones community and minimise the faults of others and of other communities. It is only thus that the moral law can be truly fulfilled, and then so fulfilled the results must be good. The man and the nation that works in the light of the moral law can never come to grief. Where there is Dharma ultimate victory is assured.
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (1948)
The American peoples have acknowledged the dignity of the individual, and their national constitutions recognize that juridical and political institutions, which regulate life in human society, have as their principal aim the protection of the essential rights of man and the creation of circumstances that will permit him to achieve spiritual and material progress and attain happiness;
Agreement regulates the relations between India and Hyderabad-UK Parliament Debate-23/06/1948
We have no obligations at all in the matter. The right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong in thinking that. The question he put to me was whether we would offer our good offices. The purpose he has in mind is, of course, to get an agreed and peaceful settlement of the differences between India and Hyderabad. About that purpose the Government fully agree with him, but in our judgment it would not help to achieve it if we were now to make the offer which the right hon. Gentleman suggests
Report from British officials in India after assassination of Gandhi in 1948
Scarcely any important decision was taken without his prior advice whether the subject was the movement and rehabilitation of refugees, Congress policy or the Kashmir issue. And when he disagreed with any decision taken it was not long, as in the recent case of the non-implementation of the Indo-Pakistan financial agreement, before he took determined and successful steps to have it revoked.
Constitution of the Republic of India drafted by Socialist Party of India-1948
We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to form a Sovereign Democratic Republic and to establish Democratic Socialist Order, wherein social justice willprevail and all citizens will lead comfortable, free and cultured life, and enjoy equality of status and opportunity and liberty of thought, expression, faith and worship, do hereby, through our chosen representatives assembled in the Constituent Assembly, adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution.
Written Statement of Savarkar in Gandhi Murder Case before spl judge at Red Fort-1948
It is enough for the purpose of this case to note that the Mahasabha is a registered association founded by such prominent men as Lala Lajpat Rai and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. Among its Presidents we find such distinguished names as Vijaya Raghavadhariyar, Ramanand Chatterjee, N.C. Kelkar, Bhai Parmanand, Dr. Moonje and others.
Charter of the Organization of American States-1948
Conscious that that mission has already inspired numerous agreements, whose essential value lies in the desire of the American peoples to live together in peace and, through their mutual understanding and respect for the sovereignty of each one, to provide for the betterment of all, in independence, in equality and under law;
White Paper on Indian States-1948-Ministry of States GOI
The White Paper on Indian States issued on July 5, 1948, contained a survey of the developments in respect of States during the first year of the existence of the Ministry of States. During the period of a year and a half which has followed the issue of that White Paper, the policy of integration pursued by the Government of India has made further progress. The States integrated during this period include Mayurbhanj, Kolhapur, Baroda, Rampur, Tehri-Garhwal, Benaras and Cooch-Behar, which have been merged in Provinces; Bhopal, Tripura and Manipur which have been taken over as centrally administered units; Travancore and Cochin, whose Union emerges as a new unit on the Indian map; and the remaining Rajputana States of Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer which have been integrated in the reconstituted United State of Rajasthan. An outstanding development during this period has been the establishment of constitutional relationship between the Centre and the State of Hyderabad.
Israel Claims Jerusalem by President Weizmann-01/12/1948
Had it not been for your heroic defence, who knows what would have remained of its non-Jewish values. We are anxious to see these values effectively protected and we are agreeable that special arrangements be made for the Old City with its Holy Places. We would like to see this sacred zone beautified, so that worshippers coming from all parts of the world to Jerusalem will derive joy and inspiration from their pilgrimage.