Author: Ian Bryant Wells
Publisher: Permanent Black
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 269
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178241056
Description
This book analyses the development of Jinnah’s relationship with India’s Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It seeks to establish that a dominant view of Jinnah-namely that he was an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist in the 1940s-is far from the truth.
Ian Wells shows that the two Jinnahs approach oversimplifies the trajectory of a complex and evolving political thinker and strategist. The primary changes in Jinnah’s politics, he suggests, were the strategies Jinnah employed to achieve his goals rather than the goals themselves.
Among the facets of Jinnah’s political thought and career analyses here are various other settled perspectives on Jinnah-his elitism and distance from mass politics; the effect on his work of an intellectual genealogy from the Liberalism of Morley on the one hand and the constitutionalism of Gokhale on the other; his view of secularism, religion and the religious community; his relations with Gandhi, Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru, Willingdon, Ramsay MacDonald and Irwin; his attitude to the Rowlatt Act, the Khilafat Movement, and non-cooperation; and his complex, troubled relations with other nationalist Muslim leaders.
This book will interest all historians of modern India and nationalist politics, as well as those who find Jinnah an intriguing and fascinating contrast to Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE IMPACT OF PARTITION ON THE STURY OF JINNAH
GOKHALE’S HEIR
Morley, Liberalism and Jinnah
Jinnah, Congress and the Muslim League
Representing Muslim Interests
AMBASSADOR OF UNITY
Reforming the Council of India
Laying the Foundation for Unity
The Lucknow Pact
JINNAH AND WILLINGDON
The Home rule Leagues
Jinnah the Extremist
The legislative Council
DEFEAT BY GANDHI
The Rowlatt Act
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
Jallianwalla Bagh and the rise of Mass Protest
Jinnah’s Fall from Grace
THE BACKROOMS OF POLITICS
Jinnah and the Khilafat
Negotiating to end Non-cooperation
Drifting Towards the Muslim League
LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
Return to constitutional Politics
Reviving Hindu-Muslim Unity
Leading the Legislature
THE JINNAH LEAGUE
The Delhi Proposals
Temporary Unity: Opposition to the Simon Commission
The End of Unity: Rejecting the Nehru Report
THE FOURTEEN POINTS OF MR JINNAH
Unifying the Muslim Community
Negotiating with Gandhi
Differing Agenda: Jinnah and Irwin
EXILE IN LONDON
The Round Table Conference
Hindu-Muslim Disunity
Rethinking Political Directions
CONCLUSION: JINNAH IN PERSPECTIVE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX