Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity : [Book] : Jinnah's early politics / Ian Bryant Wells.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-261) and index.

This book analyses the development of jinnahs relationship with indias muslims from his entry into politics until 1934 it seeks to establish that a dominant view of jinnah- namely that he was an ambassador of hindu-muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist in the 1940s is far from the truth ian wells shows that the two jinnahs approach over-simplifies the trajectory of a complex and evolving political thinker and strategist the primary changes in jinnahs politics, he suggests, were the strategies jinnah employed to achieve his goals rather than the goals themselves among the facets of jinnahs political thought and career analysed here are various other settled perspectives on jinnah: his elitism and distance from mass politics; the effect on his work of an intellectual genealogy from the liberalism of morley on the one hand and the constitutionalism of gokhale on the other; his view of secularism, religion and the religious community; his relations with gandhi, motilal and jawaharlal nehru, willingdon, ramsay macdonald and irwin; his attitude to the rowlatt act, the khilafat movement and non-cooperation; and his complex, troubled relations with other nationalist muslim leaders this book will interest all historians of modern india and nationalist politics, as well as those who find jinnah an intriguing and fascinating contrast to mahatma gandhi and jawaharlal nehru.

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