The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan: 31 (Cambridge South Asian Studies, Series Number 31)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 4/28/1994
EAN 9780521458504, ISBN10: 0521458501
Paperback, 334 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
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.
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.