She has a genuine point. However petty and shallow the decision may seem to be, we need to consider the matter from a distance and with detachment.
Iqbal was relevant as a thinker who bridged the Doomsday logic and dire forebodings of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who took the two-nation theory of the former, and clothed it in terms that could be grasped and advocated by one of the foremost legal minds of his age. It was, in other words, very specific to Pakistan and the ideation and creation of Pakistan, whether or not the final steps were forced by circumstance.
Once the Indian National Congress took a clear view against that, and, inherently, against the Hindu-first parallel scheme of Savarkar and Golwalkar, and rejected the Two Nation Theory as a founding principle, Iqbal's relevance was extinguished. What is relevant in Indian political science theory and analysis is the contestation between the secular principles of the Congress and the bigoted thinking of the Sangh Parivar. There is no longer even the shadow of a Muslim version of the Two Nation Theory extant in India, nor the possibility that it might be relevant in any conceivable future set of circumstances.
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