ABSTRACT There are very few scholarly endeavors that have focused on Pakistan–India partition and their ongoing conflict from an indigenous theoretical lens. A psycho-cultural paradigm has been used in this article to reexamine and reconceptualize the enduring two-Nations theory – a political ideology, which manifests Hindu-Muslim discord in the Indian Subcontinent by construing both communities as distinct nations based on their inherent ethno-religious and civilizational differences. Considering a very complex process of mass conversion, assimilation, and crisscrossing of caste-system between both groups, this article argues that it is theoretically problematic to differentiate between Hindus and Muslims purely on ethno-religious grounds. Given the significant impact of the institution of family on the lives of the Subcontinental people, regardless of their faith – I propose that it can be more explanatory to categorize both groups as competing branches of a joint family, to understand the construction of political ideology of two-Nations theory in familial terms. This article seeks to clarify the theoretical mechanism through which the family-level ideas can shape peoples’ worldview, informing the way they perceive abstract concepts such as group-conflict and the nation, thus impacting their political thoughts.

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政治与家庭：从政治理念的家庭建构重新思考印巴两国理论

摘要 很少有学术努力从土著理论的角度关注巴基斯坦-印度的分治及其持续的冲突。本文使用了一种心理文化范式来重新审视和重新定义持久存在的两国理论——一种政治意识形态，它通过将两个社区解释为基于其固有的民族宗教信仰的不同国家来表现印度次大陆的印度教-穆斯林不和谐。和文明差异。考虑到两个群体之间的大规模转变、同化和种姓制度交叉的非常复杂的过程，本文认为，纯粹基于民族宗教的理由来区分印度教徒和穆斯林在理论上是有问题的。鉴于家庭制度对次大陆人民生活的重大影响，不管他们的信仰如何——我建议将两个群体归类为一个共同家庭中相互竞争的分支，从家族的角度来理解两国理论的政治意识形态的构建会更能说明问题。本文试图阐明家庭层面观念塑造人们世界观的理论机制，告知他们如何看待群体冲突和国家等抽象概念，从而影响他们的政治思想。