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Partition of India prelude... Muhammad Ali Jinnah...
Partition of India prelude... Muhammad Ali Jinnah...
Item # 721134
March 23, 1940
THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 23, 1940
* Muhammad Ali Jinnah speech
* Separate Muslim homeland
* Partition of British India prelude
* India and Pakistan independence
The top of page 7 has a one column heading: "DIVISION OF INDIA URGED BY MOSLEM" with subheads. (see images) Prelude to the partition of the British Indian Empire into the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India.
Complete with all 26 pages, rag edition in great condition.
AI notes: On 22 March 1940, at the annual session of the All‑India Muslim League in Lahore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah delivered a landmark speech that crystallized the demand for a separate Muslim homeland. He argued that Muslims in British India constituted a distinct nation with their own religion, culture, and civilization, fundamentally different from Hindus, and therefore could not be expected to coexist politically under a single, unified government. Jinnah emphasized that Muslims could not accept any constitution that would inevitably place them under a Hindu-majority rule, framing the political struggle as a matter of national survival rather than mere communal negotiation. His address laid the ideological groundwork for the Lahore Resolution adopted the following day, which called for the grouping of Muslim-majority regions into autonomous, sovereign states. The speech is widely regarded by historians as the moment when Jinnah fully committed to the Two-Nation Theory and to the eventual creation of Pakistan, transforming the Muslim League’s position from seeking safeguards within a united India to demanding distinct nationhood.
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