A History of Modern India: How Jinnah emerged as the champion of the

From: India Abroad | Date: May 2, 1997 | Copyright information

India Abroad
05-02-1997
A History of Modern India: How Jinnah emerged as the champion of the Muslims

Through the 1920s till 1937 Mohammad Ali Jinnah presented the image of a successful lawyer who was dedicated to the goal of national independence, but with communal `safe-guards.' After 1920, his only organizational affiliation was with the Muslim League, which in the 1920s and 1930s had little popular following and represented elite Muslim interest.

At the All parties Conference held in Calcutta in 1928, Jinnah opposed the Motilal Nehru Report which had rejected the idea of separate ...

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