The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan - Rilegato

Jalal, Ayesha

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ISBN 10: 0521244625 ISBN 13: 9780521244626

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1985

Riassunto

In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.

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Recensione:

'Jalal's monograph is an important contribution which no student of modern South Asia can ignore. The central theme is original, provocative, stimulating and in places quite exhilarating ...' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'The strength of Jalal's work is her forthright repudiation of the historicist assumption that because an independent Pakistan came into existence such a state was intended by Jinnah as he campaigned for 'Pakistan' from 1940–1947.' The American Historical Review

'Ayesha Jalal's is a well researched, well written and more or less dispassionate study of the factors leading to the creation of Pakistan - indeed India's Partition.' The Economic Times (Bombay)

Descrizione del libro:

Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League, this book assesses the role of religious communalism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0521244625
• ISBN 13: 9780521244626
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320