Examine the events that took place during the 1920s and 1930s which consolidated the communal identities in the country.
Many events in the decades of 1920 and 1930s led to the emergence of tension between Hindus and Muslims due to which the partition of the country took place. Muslims were angered by ‘music before mosque’ by the cow protection movement and by the efforts of the Arya Samaj to being back to the Hindu fold those who had recently connected to Islam. Hindus were angered by the rapid spread of tabligh and Tanzim after 1923. As middle-class publicists and communal activists sought to build greater solidarity within their communities, mobilizing people against the other community, riots spread in different parts of the country.
