Ayesha Jalal

Sole Spokesman (eBook, ePUB)

Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139929974
• Artikelnr.: 52981058

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface to the paperback edition
Introduction
1. Jinnah between the wars
2. Jinnah and the League's search for survival
3. Jinnah and the Muslim-majority provinces
4. Centre and province: Simla and the elections of 1945-46
5. Jinnah's 'Pakistan' and the Cabinet Mission plan
6. The interim government: Jinnah in retreat
7. The end game: Mountbatten and partition.