an analysis of Indian views about Jinnah

1. Sidra Jabeen Khan

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

3.  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

4. personally
religiously
Politically

5.  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

6. Emerged
on 1934,
Master
Tactician
Ideational
unity
Congress
as his
adversary
and
nemesis

7.  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

8. Ayesha
Jalal
Too high a
price to pay
for Indian
unity
Arrangements
for power
share
Exploit the
league’s
communal
demands

10.  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

11.  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

12.  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

13.  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

14.  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

15.  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