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Maulana Azad on Jinnah and Partition
From Watan 1948:
Muslims alone are not responsible for it. This strategy was first adopted by the British government and then endorsed by the political minds of Aligarh. Later, Hindu short-sightedness made matters worse and now freedom has become contingent on the partition of India.
“Mr. Jinnah himself was an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity. In one Congress session Sarojini Naidu had commended him with this title. He was a disciple of Dadabhai Naoroji. He had refused to join the 1906 deputation of Muslims that initiated communal politics in India. In 1919 he stood firmly as a nationalist and opposed Muslim demands before the Joint Select Committee. On 3 October 1925, in a letter to the Times of India he rubbished the suggestion that Congress is a Hindu outfit. In the All Parties Conferences of 1925 and 1928, he strongly favoured a joint electorate. While speaking at the National Assembly in 1925, he said, “I am a nationalist first and a nationalist last” and exhorted his colleagues, be they Hindus or Muslims, “not to raise communal issues in the House and help make the Assembly a national institution in the truest sense of the term.”
“In 1928, Jinnah supported the Congress call to boycott Simon Commission. Till 1937, he did not favour the demand to partition India. In his message to various student bodies he stressed the need to work for Hindu Muslim unity. But he felt aggrieved when the Congress formed governments in seven states and ignored the Muslim League. In 1940 he decided to pursue the partition demand to check Muslim political decline. In short, the demand for Pakistan is his response to his own political experiences. Mr. Jinnah has every right to his opinion about me, but I have no doubts about his intelligence. As a politician he has worked overtime to fortify Muslim communalism and the demand for Pakistan. Now it has become a matter of prestige for him and he will not give it up at any cost.”
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YLH
Partition HAS been Extremely BENEFICIAL To INDIA as You yourself pointed out in your own columns a few days back
Partition was NECESSARY and Inevitable
Jinnah and ALL other Muslim League leaders were SIMPLY JEALOUS of the MASS MOBILISATION that had happened under Gandhiji’s Leadership
And Maulana though he did not want partition BUT;
IT WAS Because of the DIVISION of Muslim Population in THREE PARTS and LOSS of the Numerical Advantage of Muslims in an UNDIVIDED INDIA;
that was The real thing TROUBLING MAULANA AZAD
Pankaj, why don’t you work on your punctuation first.
New countries do not come into existence due writing articles in “Times of India” or any other publications for that matter. English government, at that point in time, could not pursue their House of Commons and House of Lords until the historical communal riots started from Bengal/Bihar and spread over as far as Punjab. This paved way for establishing two-nation theory. Wether this was the mistake of Congress (including Gandhi and Nehru) or a wise manuevring of Muslim League (or Jinnah) is a point to ponder.
I think we should come out of weak theories based on writings or fictional secret agreements with no cogent material support, and talk on reality.
[...] Maulana Azad on Jinnah and Partition [...]
If Jinnah had stuck to his original course, it would have turned out to be a better place for every body in the world, a lot of misery and self-reinforcing disasters could have been avoided and today, he would in all likelihood have been a national hero of 1.5 billion people strong country.
Why rake up this topic periodically? Is someone getting some cynical pleasure doing it?
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The following questions remain unanswered everytime this discussion makes the rounds:
1)
If Jinnah REALLY was an ambassador of hindu-muslim unity and a progressive person then he would NEVER-NEVER-NEVER have jumped on to the Iqbal-Pakistan-ML bandwagon. Anyone with minimal political intelligence and sincerity could have recognized that Muslim League (ML) and Iqbal (even after his death) were going to be a disaster for muslims and for India as a whole.
2)
If Muslim League was a party of communal emotions then why should Jinnah have objected to its being sidelined by the Congress – if that was the reason why he felt betrayed by Gandhi and Nehru? Why should the sidelining of a islamofascist communal party with an agenda of hate, divisiveness, superiority-cum-victimhood complex, slander against hindus and glorification of islamic imperialism and obscurantism have aggrieved Jinnah’s emotions?
3)
Why did Jinnah join a ready-made communal-agenda party (that too immediately at the top of the power ladder) instead of doing the gritty ground-work of establishing a BETTER SECULAR party than Congress?
4)
Jinnah joining ML to prevent muslim decline? It was like trying to extinguish petrol-on-fire with more gasoline. Was there an iota of a plan in the ML to improve the muslim lot? ML had nothing to offer except megalomania, hate of hindus, obscurantism, supremacy-cum-victimhood complex and protection of muslim feudalism/tribalism and fascism.
To avenge Congress for not giving him seats, he resorted to religion for otherwise he could not motivate masses to whose culture and languages Jinnah was abjectly oblivious. How could a man unable to speak even the dominant language lure masses into his vision without using the opium? Isn’t that what should be understood.
Did you read how a female curator was bodily assaulted/ beatenup at Narang Gallery by a fascist neoNazi policeman, a SHO?
SYYED IQBAL GEOFFREY IN LONDON
to rashid aurakzai
That is also the reason why islamofascists in Pakistan are not at all averse to resurrecting Jinnah. There is enough in his opportunist ways and words and tactical manoeuvres to please the islamofascists time and again. Jinnah’s hate/jealousy towards M K Gandhi and Nehru made him blind to what the results of what he was doing will be.
MAJ stands more for Megalomania, Arrogance and Jealousy – and not just for Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
If a man is brought up in islam (even weakly so) or has an arabic name then the jump onto the screaming wagonfull of hate and slander against non-muslims (esp. jews, hindus etc.) is very easy and the natural consequence of it.
After Jinnah became the boss of his dreamland and the new Moses of “downtrodden” muslims he still had time (13 months) to set down do’s and dont’s for Pakistan and to undo the invasion of Kashmir (by the pakistani army) and insist on restituting (with full human rights etc.) the hindu population component in Pakistan and declare Pakistan to be a steadfast secular republic unfettered by any holy book etc. etc. – but he did nothing that was necessary and possible. His hypocrisies overcame him and destroyed him and exposed themselves as his fakes.
Jinah was Kasab, a bit more chikna and tall. Both did not know native culture and worshiped aliens. Till he was getting phookat ki chiken biryani, he did not lift AK 47. Apna chikna draculla also wanted not merely biyani but also Anglo haveli. To get his haveli chikna draculla lifted his two nation AK47 in 47 and butchered millions of innocents.
There is much else Maulana Azad said.
I would urge YLH to also reproduce here, in a new post, Azad’s views listed on Page 313 of “Tinderbox” by M. J. Akbar. (I could do that but It is best left to YLH.)
Partition of India was a very unfortunate event for everyone. No one benefited from it. All are suffering.
Forget the past and move on with open eyes. This is more important for Pakistan.
@wonderer
The creation of India was also a very unfortunate event for many people, think about it. Many, who had hardly any thing in common with the inhabitants in far off places like Bihar or UP were forced to call themselves Indian, which was as insult to those people. The British created it and they divided it. Now stop moaning and move on.
@Porus
The majority of Indians call themselves Indians with pride!
Nobody is forced to call Indian. They are still very much Bihari, and Begali and Malyali and Rajasthani and Gujrati and Marathi. That is the beauty of it. One can be many identities at the same time.
India will not be India without the diversity of cultures and identities. That is what defines India.
You can’t learn that now. Its accumulated knowledge of several generations that Islam has destroyed. Not just the accumulated knowledge but the faculty of critical thinking that is instrumental in attaining this knowledge is in constant conflict with Islam.
Without reform in Islam, there is no hope for Muslims.
Here is a start that you can make – tell your kids that people call god by different names…
Break the cycle…
Porus Sir ,
You have no idea how many Bihari,Upites are there in the Indian National Army defending the Indian borders. The very army who took the surrender of 90k Pakistani in 1971 and send them back without harming them becuae thier Indic principles forbid torturing the surrendered enemy begging for refuge.
Jinnah did not want to play the normal political game in a Hindu-majority country. He wanted the Muslims to somehow be granted political equality with the Hindus without having the numbers for it. No majority anywhere can grant that to a minority. Indeed, it would make nonsense of democracy to do so.
So the only answer was Pakistan. Later, the same Jinnah mentality – inability to accept that someone else has a majority – led to the break with the Bengalis.
Now many Pakistanis regret the creation of Pakistan because it traps them in a not particularly interesting place, full of ranting mullahs and small minds.
But it is too late.
If one should think with a open mind will find that Mr Jinnah was a brilliant mind man .Ask me me how .If there was no Pakistan it would have been Muslims in the majority government in India to day,if you calculate the population of the Muslims in India and Pakistan .
Really bad times for the Indians ahead. We are still fighting the evil of Islamic extremism that is regaining power, now we can add a new problem to this list – Energy Scarcity. To top that – both the problems are connected…
I cannot but notice that in the picture Yasser posted above, Jinnah sahib looks anything but well-balanced — in fact, he qappears to have a far right tilt!
I think Indian should call themselves black Indian Because when Columbus came to the united states he found RED INDIAN now to be called native American.They can be called BHARTI.
There will be bad time for Hindustan when there will be no water,due to the global warming.Islam will be far away from Hindustan.This will be third problem for Hindustan.Why I call Hindustan because before the partition it was called Hindustan .Why British change its name because it was close to Englistan .But old people sill like to be called Hindustani.Go ahead call your real name HINDUSTAN HINDUSTANI HINDUSTANI ya…………..
@Akram Malik
We are Indians, Bharatiye, and Hindustanis. And we are proud of all three.
These titles are great, because they incorporate the identity of the great Civilization, Indians have built over the last 10,000 years.
Where Pakistan has no identity other than “pakistan ka matlab kya la ilaha illallah”, a crumbling edifice, India stands on solid ground pounded solid with 10,000 years of our love for this land.
You can call us black Indian or bhindian or Endian or whatever, it doesn’t matter. Nobody in India bothers about scrawny lice-infected barking dogs!
Jinnah was a brilliant lawyer and great man no doubt. But he thrived on among equally or more great men such as DB Navroji, GK Gokhale, Pt J Nehru, Gandhi etc. Once he is isolated from these men after partition, he became fish out of water and behaved like an ordinary man. Add to this except Iqbal, all he had was religious fanatics, feudal and opportunists around him. That is one reason why Pakistan could not make best use of him in those precious 18 after independence.
YLH
You are ALWAYS praising Jinnah . But he ONLY LIVES on the WALLS of Pakistani Government Offices
You also criticise Mahatma Gandhi .
But Gandhi AS OF TODAY is still being INVOKED by Millions of Indians as we seek to BRING A peaceful Change in our Country
Gandhi GIVES US INDIANS Strength to FIGHT AND CHANGE and IMPROVE our Country
Similarly The Whole World’s MEDIA is watching India right NOW
And admiring how Indians are Bringing Change Peacefully
WHEREAS RECENTLY We have seen VIOLENT REVOLUTIONS throughout Middle East
What is Happening in Pakistan is That Jinnah has been Totally forgotten
And Zia ul haq , Hammed Gul, Mullah Omar, Ilyas Kashmiri ,OSAMA bin Laden, and Zaid Hamid are the SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
Both communities are nothing but stupid and would probably end up killing each other.. and guess for what, something as stupid as religion! Religion is an institutional stuff made for idiots and buffoons..
@RaJ2Xtoo
I strongly agree with you my dear the hole World is watching whats happening in India to day the corruption is bigger then the country.What a great country no where in the world.Keep on .
Best of luck
@RaJ2Xtoo
I strongly agree with you my dear the hole World is watching whats happening in India to day the corruption is bigger then the country.What a great country no where in the world.Keep on .
Best of luck NOTE.INDIAN KA MAT LAB KIA CORRUPTION CORRUPTION.
If the choice is between polution of Corruption and the polution of islamists then Indians will rather live with corruption as it entails only Money while other is poisonous in every way. We can see the deracination and elimination of certain human decencies in 2 contrasting societies all over the world. Akram Malik , please tell who holds better human values , islamic society or Kaffir one?
Muslims, especially pakistanis, have lost their ability to be honest. Hence all discussions with them run into pakistan ideology propaganda being blared at non-muslims.
As YLH has not conceded to my request, contained in my comment above, I am posting herewith the excerpts from M. J. Akbar’s book:
Azad listed eight potential ills that could leave the body politic of Pakistan in high fever. ‘I feel, right from its inception, Pakistan will face some very serious problems:
1. An incompetent political leadership will pave the way for military dictatorship as it has happened in many Muslim countries.
2. The heavy burden of foreign debt.
3. Absence of friendly relations with neighbours and the possibility of armed conflict.
4. Internal unrest and regional conflicts.
5. Loot of national wealth by the neo-rich and industrialists of Pakistan.
6. Apprehension of class war as a result of exploitation by the neo-rich.
7. The dissatisfaction and alienation of youth from religion and collapse of the theory of Pakistan.
8. The conspiracies of International powers to control Pakistan.’
Azad continued, ‘I must warn that the evil consequences of the partition will not affect India alone. Pakistan will be equally haunted by them… We must remember that an entity conceived in hatred shall last only as long as that hatred lasts. This hatred shall overwhelm relations between India and Pakistan. In this situation it will not be possible for India and Pakistan to become friends and live amicably unless some catastrophic event takes place.’
I would urge my Pakistani friends to consider the above with all seriousness that it deserves. Needless to say that these views were expressed before the creation of Pakistan by a Muslim intellectual who became free India’s first Education Minister.
[@Porus. Would you, Sir, see my earlier comment in the light of this one?]
Dialogue with muslims is dead. They are so deeply indoctrinated through intimidation and hate, arrogance and conceit, arab/turkish racism and the supposed past glories of islam that they cannot be honest in any dialogue. The few honest among them prefer to remain hidden and silent. Muslims and islam are an expression and assertion of sadism, masochism and cynicism. They are trained to not only deny but also reject facts in order to glorify their fascisms centred around Mohammad, kuran, muslim history-writing and victimhood or supremacy complex. It is all going to become worse with non-muslim world’s leaders licking the muslims’ boots.
still fighting, amazing..
to ash
This religion exported from Arabia is makig us fight. The arab exporters of this religion are enjoying how we in the indian subcontinent are wasting our lives and resources on this fight. Their quislings are getting free petroleum and lots of money and weapons and special pilgrim-cards etc. so that they can and will carry out the fight for another thousand years. China and arabs are enjoying how we in the indian subcotinent are making fools of ourselves for the sake of an arab god or arabic book or chinese hegemonial ambitions and promises.
As a Pakistani, I think Pakistan has now shown itself to be a huge mistake. Jinnah’s ego was bruised by Congress’ anti-Muslim actions. I think he sincerely wanted the best for the Muslims of India. But if he could see what has happened to Pakistan today, he would never have supported the division of India. Pakistan is fast becoming a hell-hole, where no semblance of governance exists. The army is the only institution in the country with any discipline. It is also not such a great institution, since it is also corrupt like politicians, and probably on a higher order of magnitude than them. I would take Manmohan Singh as the leader of Pakistan any day before any other politician I have seen in Pakistan recently, with the exception of Musharraf, and Imran Khan. Zardari’s devilishness I do not wish upon my worst enemies. I think India and Pakistan need to solve their differences, and work towards a Euro like area in South Asia. Asia is the place to be in the coming decades, and fighting will only hurt both nations. We need to cooperate and be interdependent, rather than be perennial spoilers for each other. Let’s build a South Asian Free Trade Area, and South Asian Federation of States. Let’s have one South Asian Rupee. Let’s have open borders with one visa for the whole region. Let’s sign a no war pact. And bring our people towards prosperity.