Theory

The views stated below are NOT mine but I found them an interesting discussion.

India and Pakistan were meant to be one nation there was no purpose or usefulness in splitting them into two separate entities. The real reason behind the so called two nation theory which our early leaders used to elicit this piece of land from the british was a divide between provincial and federal autonomy. The Congress was leaning strongly towards a centralized government which would have eliminated all the jageerdars and their lavish lifestyles free from any real work. Jinnah and his muslim leauge whatever their true motives found in the teritorrial jageerdars of the indian subcontinent their foremost allies and supporters AND providers of votes once they announced that they would retain some provincial autonomy. Does it not come as a surprise to you that the muslim league in one election lost badly while in the very next it somehow managed to secure votes in all muslim majority areas after the league had spent time putting its case forward to the jageerdars [Sorry but I keep forgetting the exact dates].