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• Oral histories provided historian the experiences of poor and powerless. It gives
information about significant help and empathy of people in easing out the life of affected
person.
• The oral history of partition has succeeded in exploring experiences of those men and
women who were earlier ignored and taken for granted or mentioned in passing history.
• Some historians casts doubt on oral history as they say oral history lacks concreteness and
chronology. Oral histories are not able to provide overall bigger picture and are usually
touching the tangential issues. Reliability of oral histories can be corroborated and
examined by the evidences from other sources. Oral history should not be seen as
tangential if one has to know about experience of people.
• Oral histories are not easily available and affected People might not like to share their
sufferings to strangers. The oral historian faces the daunting task of having to shift, the
actual experiences of partition from the web of constructed memories.

Class 12 History Notes Chapter 14 Important Terms:

• Unionist Party: This party stood for the interests of all landlords in Punjab. It was founded
in the year 1923.
• Confederation: It refers to a union of fairly autonomous and sovereign states with a central
government.
• Arya Samaj: Founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in the year 1875.
• Muslim League: Founded in the year 1906.
• Hindu Mahasabha: Founded in the year 1915.
• Federal Union: Autonomous federation given autonomous status. Its Central Government
has some limited powers.
• Lucknow Pact: A pact between Congress and Muslim League signed in the year 1916.
• Pakistan: Came into existence after partition of India. Choudhary Rehmat Ali, a Punjabi-
Muslim student at Cambridge, coined the name ‘Pakistan’ for the first time in the year
1933.
• Muslim League’s Resolution at Lahore: In 1940, the Muslim League moved a resolution at
Lahore demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas.
• General Elections of 1946: In the year 1946, last general elections were held of pre-
independence. Major political parties of India contested the election. The Indian Congress
won massively in the general elections of constituencies. The Muslim also won in Muslim
constituencies.
• Cabinet Mission: A three-member Cabinet Mission arrived in India in March 1946.

Time line:

• 1905 – Partitioned on Bengal
• 1906 – Muslim League was formed
• 1916 – Lucknow Pact was signed
• 22 Dec, 1939 – Deliverance day, observed by Muslim League
• 16 Aug, 1946 – Direct Action Day plan celebrated by Muslim League
• 3 June, 1947 – Declaration and acceptance
• 15 August, 1947 – India became free and emerged as an independent nation.