Malik Barkat Ali
(1886 - 1946)
Jinnah of Pakistan
"India never was one, was never a nation, never was a country governed by one single power even with the sword. It is a sub-continent of different nationalities and peoples. It was never governed, in history, by one single power. Even today, when constitutionally and legally British are ruling over India, one third India is not British. The administrative oneness is entirely the making of the British. The government, which has been in this sub-Continent for 150 or 160 years, is not a government with the sanction of the peoples.... It is the sanction of British bayonets and not the sanction of the peoples."
Quaid-e-Azam
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Muslim League Council, November 9, 1942