National organization
The individual transformation also requires a change in actions and behaviour, and this change should be motivated by the desire to have a national organization. Pakistan came into being because this desire got realized.
Mary Parker Follett
My new book, Jinnah: The Case for Pakistan
Jinnah: The Case for Pakistan is my latest book. It has been published by Libredux UK, and can be purchased from Amazon. You can also download a free soft copy right here, or from the page about the book on this website. A panel discussion on this book was conducted last month in Lahore (and …
Malignant Democracy
‘Western democracy is totally unsuited to India and its imposition on India is the disease in the body-politic.’ Jinnah, Time and Tide (London), February 1940 As already mentioned, Jinnah believed that Western democracy was the second pillar of British imperialism (by Western democracy, he meant the form of constitution ‘under which the government of the …
A. J. P. Taylor: someone we should know
Going through the book English History 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor a few years ago, I was happily surprised to see that according to him, the years immediately following the First World War were happy times. This is contrary to the general belief today. “To judge from all leading writers, the barbarians were breaking …
A parallel between the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 and the defeat of the Spanish Armada
On the morning of September 6, 1965, the people of Pakistan (including the present-day Bangladesh) learnt that their country was under attack because the Indian forces had crossed the international boundary near Lahore. For the next seventeen days, the media kept informing the nation that heavy losses were being inflicted on the enemy. When the …
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Iqbal, Mary Parker Follett and C. R. Das
In sync with the current of Iqbal’s thought was also the idea of ‘new democracy’, highlighted by such political thinkers as the American pioneer of management sciences, Mary Parker Follett and the great Bengali visionary Chittaranjan Das (C. R. Das). Follett denounced Western democracy as ‘old democracy’, which sustained itself through a dichotomy between the …
The Traditional Democracy
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 …
Political Organization
Pakistan was created by a political organization but the organization was unlike any other. It was a new type, the technical term for which was ‘group organization’ (although the term was never used by Iqbal or the Quaid, but both were familiar with it). It was believed that the country could only be maintained through …
The Group Principle
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 …
Synopsis of ‘Introduction’ to The New State
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 …