Jinnah India-Partition Independence
Jaswant Singh
Language: English
Pages: 674
ISBN: 8129116537
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Contents: List of illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction: A complex opening. 1. India and Islam. 2. Jenabhai to Jinnah: the journey. 3. The Turbulent twenties. 4. Sharpening focus -- narrowing options. 5. A short decade -- a long end game. 6. Sunset of the empire -- post-dated cheque on a collapsing bank . 7. A war of succession -- diverging paths. 8. Stymied negotiations? 9. Mountbatten Viceroyalty: the end of the Raj. 10. Pakistan: birth -- independence: the Quaid-e-Azam s last journey. 11. In retrospect. Appendices. Endnotes. Index. "No Indian or Pakistani politician/Member of Parliament has ventured an analytical, political biography of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, about whom views necessarily get divided as being either hagiographical or additional demonology. The book attempts an objective evaluation. Jaswant Singh s experience as a minister responsible for the conduct of India s foreign policy, managing the country s defence (concurrently), had been uniformly challenging (Lahore Peace Process; betrayed at Kargil; Kandahar; The Agra Peace Summit; the attack on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament; coercive diplomacy of 2002; the peace overtures reinitiated in April 2003). He asks where and when did this questionable thesis of Muslims as a separate nation first originate and lead the Indian sub-continent to? And where did it drag Pakistan to? Why then a Bangladesh? Also what now of Pakistan? Where is it headed? This book is special; it stands apart, for it is authored by a practitioner of policy, an innovator of policies in search of definitive answers. Those burning whys of the last sixty-two years, which bedevil us still. Jaswant Singh believes that for the return of lasting peace in South Asia there is no alternative but to first understand what made it abandon us in the first place. Until we do that, a minimum, a must, we will never be able to persuade peace to return. (From book jacket)
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Gandhi that he never went to meet him at his residence. Gandhi–Jinnah Talks (Part I) Since the arrest of the Congress leaders in August 1942, (C. Rajagopalachari was not arrested because of his known opposition to ‘Quit India’), Rajaji had been striving to bring about a rapprochement between the Congress and the Muslim League. He was convinced that the League would join hands with Congress only when assured of their right of self-determination for the Muslim majority areas, but the British.
Office he had tried to bring the parties together and he would continue to do his best to this end. He sincerely trusted that they might be able to arrive at a solution to the present diffculties.’ After the usual courtesies this meeting, the fi nal effort to save the Cabinet Mission Plan, was then abandoned. This statement of 6 December 1946 by HMG was based on a legal advice; it was an attempt at conferring an authoritative meaning to the Plan. To this Nehru had responded by commenting that.
Unintended consequences, we now briefly refer. The Language Divide Outside of the particularities and rituals of the two faiths, what also separated them was the medium of education, the language used and the curriculum adopted; they were entirely different and separate. Schools of teaching tended to be attached (mostly) to temples, mosques and such other congregational centres. The medium of instruction here was different: Sanskrit, Hindi or the regional language for Hindu schools just as.
Independence; sadly it happened on several critical occasions post-partition, too, but that is another account. Late in 1943, in his Ahmednagar jail diary, Nehru had privately given words to his views about the Quaid: ‘Jinnah…offers an obvious example of an utter lack of the civilized mind. With all his cleverness and ability, he produces an impression on me of utter ignorance and lack of understanding and even the capacity to understand this world and its problems… instinctively I think it is.
In composition, free of rhetorical discourses and learned enunciations about political principles which had so hindered the preceding conference’s deliberations, the picture though, was still not encouraging. The interests involved were so varied, the differences so much more accented, instead of having been whittled by time that consequently the delegates dispersed with the most important questions left unsettled. However, neither Britain nor India could afford to waste any further time, enough.