The more I study the primary sources of the Pakistan movement, the more I feel that the history of the British period has seldom been written from the perspective of All-India Muslim League (which I dare call the Muslim point of view). Of course, there are a few exceptions such as Pakistan Naguzeer Thha by Syed Hasan […]
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Jinnah never claimed to be the sole spokesperson of his nation. His lifelong stance was that the sole representative of the Muslim nation was All-India Muslim League (and later its off-shoot in the new state). In April 1946, he also took the pledge of loyalty to the League just like ordinary Muslims. The idea that
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One of the objections raised against Iqbal by his detractors even today is that he accepted knighthood from the British government in 1923. While researching for Iqbal: Daur-i-Urooj, I was surprised to see that almost everything that can be said for or against the subject had already been said within weeks of the knighthood. I
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Edited by Jogendra Chunder Ghose. Published by Srikanta Roy, Calcutta, 1901 Go to the page at Internet Archive for downloading: Volume I Volume II
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By Saleena Karim, scholar of Jinnah Studies, published at Goodreads, February 1, 2012 Read it at Goodreads
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Edited by Jamil-ud-Din Ahmad and published by Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, 1942. A selection of speeches, writings and statements of Jinnah from 1935 to 1942. Go to the page at Internet Archive for downloading
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by Ruth Hale, published in The Bookman, September 1923. Includes an unfavourable review of The Soul of Woman by Dr. Gina Lombroso. Read it online at UNZ This is a reference cited in Iqbal: Daur-i-Urooj, the fourth part of the comprehensive biography of Iqbal by Khurram Ali Shafique in Urdu.
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by Adolphi Martin Benson. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in German in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1919. Go the page at Internet Archive for downloading
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edited by Vijaya Chandra Joshi. Published in two volumes by University Publishers, Delhi, 1966. Go to the pages at Internet Archive for downloading: Volume One Volume Two This is a reference cited in Iqbal: Daur-i-Urooj, the fourth part of the comprehensive biography of Iqbal in Urdu by Khurram Ali Shafique.
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by Katherine Mayo. Published in May 1927; and by Jonathan Cape, London, in July 1927. Both editions were reprinted several times every year for some time. Go to the page at Internet Archive for downloading the 33rd reprint of the US edition, published March 1931. This is one of the references cited in Iqbal: Daur-i-Urooj,