On 10 March 1941, less than a year after putting forward the demand for Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah addressed the students at the Muslim University Aligarh. The address was nothing less than a lecture on political science and remains, possibly, one of the most underrated speeches in the political literature of the world. Jinnah
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‘This is only a subterfuge on their part intended to mislead the Muslims…’ (Jinnah, 28 June 1947) On 3 June 1947, the British Government announced its acceptance of the principle of federation as suggested by the All-India Muslim League, i.e. two sovereign states should be formed in the Indian subcontinent on the basis of the
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On Wedneday, 13 August 1947, Jinnah held a banquet in honour of the Last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, at the Governor-General’s House in Karachi. The toast he offered to His Majesty King Goerge VI on this occasion is important because it (a) gives a definite perspective on the colonial past; (b) defines the terms for future
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One-India fallacy Malignant democracy Mortal Empire, Immortal League Aristocratic radicalism New destinies One-India fallacy ‘…and the so-called one India is only a means of British domination and British rule…’ Jinnah, Cairo, December 19, 1946 The one thing which keeps the British in India is the false idea of a United India, as preached by Gandhi.
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Here is a prose translation of Chapter 4, Javid Nama (1932), the epic poem of Iqbal in Persian. The chapter presented here comprises the complete description of Marghdeen, the ideal world of Iqbal. As I would like to explain elsewhere, it is possible to read this chapter as an allegory about a great positive
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The Traditional Democracy’ is the second part of The New State (1918) by Mary Parker Follett and comprises of 6 chapters. Capsule summary of Part II, Chapters 16-21 Equality rests on two points of view: (a) I am equal to everyone else as one of the necessary members of the group; (b) each of these
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The individual has a ‘psychic relation’ with the group, and it can be observed in the ‘group process’ or the social process through which a group or a society produces an idea by receiving input from each and every member. The process comprises of acting and reacting, through which a ‘given unity’ splits into differences
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Two years from now many of us will be celebrating the centenary of the first publication of The New State but it can easily turn into the kind of thing the author despised so much: talking about concepts without having any practical purpose in mind. Perhaps it can be helpful if we recall that
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Last updated 20 May 2023 The New State (1918) was a groundbreaking work from the American social scientist Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933), now recognized as a pioneer of management sciences. Excerpts from this work were quoted by the Bengali visionary C. R. Das in his presidential address at the annual session of the Indian National
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