The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan: 31 (Cambridge South Asian Studies, Series Number 31)

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan: 31 (Cambridge South Asian Studies, Series Number 31)

by Ayesha Jalal (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 334
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 28 Apr 1994

ISBN 10: 0521458501
ISBN 13: 9780521458504
Book Overview: 'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of ... the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review

Media Reviews
'Jalal's monograph is an important contribution which no student of modern South Asia can ignore. The central theme is original, provocative, stimulating and in places quite exhilarating ...' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'The strength of Jalal's work is her forthright repudiation of the historicist assumption that because an independent Pakistan came into existence such a state was intended by Jinnah as he campaigned for 'Pakistan' from 1940-1947.' The American Historical Review
'Ayesha Jalal's is a well researched, well written and more or less dispassionate study of the factors leading to the creation of Pakistan - indeed India's Partition.' The Economic Times (Bombay)
At once compelling and closely argued, this is a work no student of modern India and Pakistan can afford to ignore. American Historical Review
Concise, elegantly written, amply documented... Pacific Affairs
This work provides a fresh perspective on the demand for Pakistan and its regional variations. Sajida S. Alvi, Religious Studies Review