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      • Elections held in the winter of 1945–46 proved how effective Jinnah’s single-plank strategy for his Muslim League had been, as the league won all 30 seats reserved for Muslims in the Central Legislative Assembly and most of the reserved provincial seats as well.
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  2. According to Zakaria, more than Jinnah’s success, it was the failure of the Congress and its leadership to develop a sustained nationalist strategy to counter communalism. Congress leaders like Nehru and Patel not only ignored the warnings of Maulana Azad, but also kept Gandhi in the dark while making secret deals with the British to fulfill ...

  3. In contrast, Jinnah and the League reiterated their demand that the first step must be to accept Pakistan in principle now that the Muslim electorate had given its verdict in favour of it. Once Congress was prepared to recognise this, ‘the whole spirit would change and we should become friends’.

    • Ayesha Jalal
    • 1985
  4. Jan 22, 2024 · The Gordian Knot, as it were, of this entire discourse is Jinnah. There is a wide chasm of disagreement that separates these two schools of thought--namely, revisionist and orthodox--in their estimation of both Jinnah’s actions and intentions.

  5. Aug 1, 2021 · The instantaneous difficulty for him was how to formulate a stratagem that could form the conditional dynamism in such a way that it generates opportunities for the Muslims to understand their...

  6. Sep 8, 2005 · Jinnah's dream was shattered with the partition of Punjab and Bengal, and the massive killings. For a secular Pakistan, the presence of a large, powerful and articulate minority was...

  7. On page 106 the author describes Jinnah’s success in uniting Hindus and Muslims in the adoption of the Lucknow Pact in 1916, but already points to what lies ahead: “This was the very same Jinnah who later got