JINNAH AND INDIANS: AN ANALYSIS OF

INDIAN VIEWS ABOUT JINNAH

Sidra Jabeen Khan

ABSTRACT Indian’s scholars views Partition scenario Judgment about Jinnah Hypocrisy of Indians Eternal jealousy Continuous dogma Actual reason behind the hate

INTRODUCTION Creator of Pakistan Analyzed by many scholars True patriotic and charismatic way Judged: Insane and of no intellectual Great Caliber, Strong stamina Villain of History in India Seen behind the partition curtain Indian Historiography: agenda

personally

religiously

Politically

Three dimensions

POLITICALLY Roots of Indian Hatred V.N. Datta: Iqbal who blazed a trail that

Jinnah followed N.G. Rajurkar: Jinnah’s feelings were

hurt Statement to Mountbatten Bhimrao Ramji: Critically analyzed

Emerged on 1934, Master Tactician

Ideational unity

Congress as his adversary and nemesis

POLITICALLY Kanji Dwarkadas: defended, Congress

leaders fault Alan Compbell-Johnson: started an

offensive Maulana Azad: Jinnah was furious N.G. Rajurkar: permanently negative

attitude Jaswant Singh: Intransigent Jinnah

always been difficult to deal with

Ayesha Jalal

Too high a price to pay for Indian

unity

Arrangements for power

shareExploit the league’s

communal demands

“What Jinnah wanted was the

supreme arbitrator, a

representative of the crown,

who could assist both dominions”

POLITICALLY Mountbatten: couldn’t deny

that Jinnah played a poor hand of cards superbly

Army division, 1948 1st constituent assembly Last 13 months of British rule Tragic collapse of Jinnah’s

strategy Extraordinary capacity to

fight Triumphant hero in Pakistani

hagiography Wavell: very quiet and

reasonable

RELIGIOUSLY Ajeet Jawed: ate pork, drank whiskey,

seldom entered a mosque, ignorant of Islamic teachings

Rafiq Zakaria: could neither read the Quran, neither did say his prayers, nor fast

Example of Qazi Isa and Jinnah

PERSONALLY Jaswant Singh: liberal, electic and

secular to the core Wasn’t blessed by birth like Gandhi Hector Bolitho: source of power, cold

rationalist, potentially kind Jaswant Singh: 3 piece suit, lorgnette,

cigarette holder, King’s English

PERSONALLY M.C. Chagla: obsessive egoism, believed

in practical politics N.G. Rajurkar: wasn’t enamored of

Gandhi Ajeet Jawed: Nationalist, secularist,

constitutionalist Rafiq Zakaria: sat at feet of leading

British lawyers, art of oratory, oversensitive

March Hare of Alice in wonderland

PERSONALLY Mountbatten: advocate of the first order Jaswant Singh: with his death, an era of distinctive

politics came to an end, Lasting peace, amity and accord with India: wrong

CONCLUSION Hatred Fair basis Never be able to judge Reason for Jinnah’s demand Current situation of Muslims in India Still under slavery Selfless act Loyalty to nation Roots of hatred too deep Few drops in vast ocean

They paid the price..Across a world in flamesBut their own hate slewTheir own soul before

[any] victory came

Rudyard KiplingThe outlaws, 1914

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