Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

Who composed "Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara"?

Options:

Rabindranath Tagore

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Mohammad lqbal

Anand Mohan Bose

Correct Answer:

Mohammad lqbal

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Mohammad lqbal

The origins of the Pakistan demand have also been traced back to the Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal, the writer of “Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara”. In his presidential address to the Muslim League in 1930, the poet spoke of a need for a “NorthWest Indian Muslim state”. Iqbal, however, was not visualising the emergence of a new country in that speech but a reorganisation of Muslim-majority areas in north-western India into an autonomous unit within a single, loosely structured Indian federation.