Jinnah of Pakistan

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"Jinnah was the most Westernised political leader in all the annals of Indian Islam; no other Muslim political leader could match him in terms of modernity and a modern outlook. He was completely at home with the milieu in cosmopolitan Bombay and metropolitan London. He also married a Parsi girl, so unconventional for a Muslim leader at that time, though after getting her converted to Islam. During his chequered career, Jinnah came in contact with an exceedingly large number of non-Muslim leading personalities and a host of British officials, more than any other Muslim leader and had interacted with them for some four decades - before he underwent a paradigmatic shift. Jinnah was also a man who minced no words, stood no humbug, and called a spade a spade. He held political rhetoric in high disdain; he preferred political wilderness to playing to the gallery. Such a man could not possibly have gone in for an Islamic orientated discourse unless he felt that the Islamic values he was commending were at home with the values underlying modernity, that Islam was in consonance with progress and modernity. During the debate on Islam and secularism, this is a point that has lain ignored."

Pakistan

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Jinnah's Vision of Pakistan


1933

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1933, Mar 12 In a Resolution passed at All India Muslim League Council meeting at Delhi, it was decided to request him to return to India, and to give a lead to the Muslim at that critical juncture.
Mar 14 Abdul Aziz, President All India Muslim League, in a telegram, requested him to return to India to lead the Muslim.
Mar 17 The White Paper, containing HMO's Reform proposals, was published.
Mar 20 Expressed his reservations on the constitutional proposals contained in the White Paper.

In his address to the twelfth session of the Chamber of the Princes at New Delhi, Viceroy, said "That it was the Princes who made the Federation / Federal living idea and practical possibility by their expressed determination to join British India in securing a real measure of progress towards self-government". Adding that it was his firm conviction that for the Indian States the balance of advantage weighed heavily towards accepting the Federation / Federal scheme and working it wisely and prudently, since it offered them great advantages. They would have a weight and influence in the Federation / Federal bodies which would go far to ensure stability and ordered progress in India in all matters not expressly ceded to the Federation.
Mar 30 On Abdul Matin Chowdhury's suggestion that he should return to India and contest elections to the Indian Legislative Assembly, said that he would decide about it on his next visit to India in Dec. Asked "is there much hope in doing anything there? These are questions which still make me feel that there is no room for my services in India, ...but there is no chance of doing anything to save India till the Hindu realize the true position. Muslim are driven away and must not fall into the hands of our opponents. The key is held by the Hindu and they alone can turn the tide by a wise and bold stroke of policy."

Wrote to Abdul Matin Chowdhry that it lay with the Hindu to turn the tide of reactionary politics in India. Because of the hopeless situation, refused to return to India.
Mar 31 In reply to Abdul Aziz, President, All India Muslim League, informed him that he would be resuming to India in mid-Dec. Requested him to try to arrange reconciliation amongst the different communities of India.
Apr 2 Expressing his views on the White Paper said it provided an ironclad system to the Viceroy and the Provincial Government's to rule over India as they wished. Observed that unless Hindu-Muslim unity was achieved, the future of India was bleak.
Apr 7 In a speech after Eid congregation at Shah Jehan Mosque, Working, said that the British Government would not be able to achieve its objectives as enunciated in the White Paper, and that it should rather try to win over the loyalty of the Indians.
Apr 27 In a letter to Abdul Matin Chowdhury, said he was being called back to India without having any solid base.
Jun 17 CDO movement was suspended for another six weeks, i.e. till July 31.
Jul Several Muslim leaders including Abdul Matin Chowdhury and Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan requested him to return to India, and work for Muslim.
Aug 6 In a meeting at his West Hempstead residence, Nawab Mohammed Yamin Khan pleaded with him to return to India.
Oct 21-22 All India Muslim League session (Aziz Group) was held at Howrah.
Nov 25-26 All India Muslim League session (Hafiz Hidayat Husain Group) met at New Delhi. The session passed a Resolution suggesting that advantage be taken of the expected presence of the Aga Khan and Mohammed Ali Jinnah in India and a convention be held to discuss plans for "bringing about unity in the ranks of the All India Muslim League ".
Dec 13 Sir Abdullah Suhrawardy and some other Muslim members of Indian Legislative Assembly observed that in view of Mohammed Ali Jinnah's arrival in India, All India Muslim League should not send any Representative to All-Parties Conference at Lucknow.
Dec 20 In an interview to the Representative Amrit Bazar Patrika, in London, said that without achieving unity India could not get freedom.
Dec Informed Kanji Dwarkadas that he was leaving Marseilles by Secretary of State Maloja" on December 22, reaching Bombay on January 4, 1934.

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