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  Jinnah - Search View - MSN Encarta
Jinnah, a staunch nationalist, resigned from the council in protest.
Jinnah disagreed profoundly with the movement and resigned from the Congress.
Jinnah died of tuberculosis in Karāchi in 1948.
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  Mohammad Ali Jinnah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jinnah's birthplace and date of birth are disputed; however, it is generally believed that he was born in Wazir Mansion, Karachi, and raised in Mumbai (then Bombay).
Jinnah was educated at the Sind Madrasatul Islam and the Christian Society High School, in Karachi.
Jinnah was the chief architect of the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress Party and the League to cooperate on all national issues, and became the president of the All India Home Rule League founded with Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak and other prominent Indian nationalists.
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 Mohammad Ali Jinnah - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jinnah's birthplace and date of birth are disputed; however, it is generally believed that he was born in Wazir Mansion, Karachi, and raised in Bombay.
Jinnah's family had Hindu, Ismaili, Shia and Sunni ancestry; and the family was primarily Ismaili.
Jinnah participated in the Round Table Conference (1930-1931) but was frustrated at the failure to achieve any tangible results; he announced his retirement from politics.
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 Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Jinnah, who was also the first Indian to pilot a private member's Bill through the Council, soon became a leader of a group inside the legislature.
Jinnah's disillusionment at the course of politics in the subcontinent prompted him to migrate and settle down in London in the early thirties.
A man such as Jinnah, who had fought for the inherent rights of his people all through his life and who had taken up the somewhat unconventional and the largely mininterpreted cause of Pakistan, was bound to generate violent opposition and excite implacable hostility and was likely to be largely misunderstood.
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 Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Jinnah was the first member of the Viceroy's Council to resign, protesting against uprooting of "fundamental principles of justice" by government's "overfretful and incompetent bureaucracy".
Jinnah's love of the law was too great, however, to allow him to adopt the revolutionary method of Satyagraha launched by Mahatma Gandhi in protest against those fl acts and against Dyer's subsequent brutal massacre of unarmed peasants in Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh that dark April of 1919.
Jinnah insisted that unless Gandhi and his Congress admitted their Hindu bias, and recognised his Muslim League as the only political party representative of British India's Muslim population there could be no solution to south Asia's Hindu-Muslim conflict and "civilisational divide", short of Partition.
www.india-today.com /itoday/millennium/100people/jinnah.html   (1303 words)

  
 Jinnah: Pakistan's founding father
In truth, Jinnah was a complex man who by his eloquence and perseverance inspired both adulation and condemnation.
Jinnah studied law in England, and after his return to India in 1896 as an advocate for the Bombay High Court, the slender, well-dressed and well-spoken attorney quickly made a name for himself.
Jinnah, who by most accounts was not a particularly religious man, called for equal rights for all Pakistani citizens without regard to their religion.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/India97/pakistan/nation.builder   (748 words)

  
 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Summary
Jinnah's attempts to work with the Moslem League were so frustrating, however, that he concluded its leaders were either "flunkeys of the British or camp followers of the Congress" and went to England in 1931 to take up a law practice there.
Jinnah was the architect of the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the League, bringing them together on most issues regarding self-government and presenting a united front to the British.
Jinnah's grandson, Nusli Wadia, is a prominent industrialist residing in Mumbai.
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 Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
Jinnah first entered politics by participating in the 1906 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, the party that called for dominion status and later for independence for India.
Jinnah was still thinking in terms of cooperation between the Muslim League and the Hindu Congress and with coalition governments in the provinces.
Jinnah had originally been dubious about the practicability of Pakistan, an idea that Sir Muhammad Iqbal had propounded to the Muslim League conference of 1930; but before long he became convinced that a Muslim homeland on the Indian subcontinent was the only way of safeguarding Muslim interests and the Muslim way of life.
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 Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
In vain did Jinnah argue at the National convention (1928): "What we want is that Hindus and Mussalmans should march together until our object is achieved...These two communities have got to be reconciled and united and made to feel that their interests are common".
Faced thus, what alternative had Jinnah and the League but to rescind their earlier acceptance, reiterate and reaffirm their original stance, and decide to launch direct action (if need be) to wrest Pakistan.
But what is most remarkable about Jinnah is that he was the recepient of some of the greatest tributes paid to any one in modern times, some of them even from those who held a diametrically opposed viewpoint.
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 Jinnah - MSN Encarta
Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), Indian politician and longtime leader of the Muslim League.
Jinnah became the founding father of Pakistan and its first governor-general (1947-1948).
Jinnah’s first important contact with political affairs was in 1906, when he acted as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji, president of the Indian National Congress, a political organization that was working for Indian autonomy from British rule.
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 Jinnah
Jinnah lovesher very much but he was so busy that he was away for long periods of time and was emotionally limited because he says he never taught himself to show his love.
Jinnah forbids the marriage with the threat that she will not have a father if she marries the man. When the daughter objects that he married a Parse, he responds that her mother had converted to Islam.
Jinnah feels that this move is an attempt on the part of Mountbatten to force Pakistan into defeat.
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 Jinnah
Jinnah first entered politics by participating in the 1906 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, the party that called for dominion status and later for independence for India.
Jinnah's problem during the following years was to convert the league into an enlightened political body prepared to cooperate with other organizations working for the good of India.
Jinnah was still thinking in terms of cooperation between the Muslim League and the Hindu Congress and with coalition governments in the provinces.
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 Quaid-e-Azam (Mohammad Ali Jinnah)
Jinnah's problem during the following years was to convert the league into an enlightened political body prepared to co-operate with other organizations working for the good of India.
Jinnah was still thinking in terms of co-operation between the Muslim League and the Hindu Congress and with coalition governments in the provinces.
Jinnah had originally been dubious about the practicability of Pakistan, an idea that Sir Muhammad Iqbal had propounded to the Muslim League conference of 1930; but before long he became convinced that a Muslim homeland on the Indian subcontinent was the only way of safeguarding Muslim interests and the Muslim way of life.
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 Jinnah's Vision of Pakistan
Jinnah became identified in the Muslim mind with the concept of the charismatic community, the concept which answered their psychic need for endowing and sanctifying their sense of community with a sense of power.
Jinnah developed this into a definition of Muslim nationhood that was most cogent, the most closely argued, and the most firmly based in international law since the time of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
Jinnah was the most Westernised political leader in all the annals of Indian Islam; no other Muslim political leader could match him in terms of modernity and a modern outlook.
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 Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity
Significantly, Jinnah's father was born in 1857 -- at the end of one kind of Muslim history, with the failed uprisings in Delhi -- and died in 1901 (F. Jinnah 1987: vii).
Jinnah was elected president of the Lucknow Muslim League session in 1916 (from now he would be one of its main leaders, becoming president of the League itself from 1920 to 1930 and again from 1937 to 1947 until after the creation of Pakistan).
Jinnah's political philosophy was revealed in the Lucknow conference in the same year when he helped bring the Congress and the League on to one platform to agree on a common scheme of reforms.
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 Was Jinnah a Secularist
Jinnah used to be a perfect secularist as far as his private life was concerned, yet he believed in using religion for public consumption to achieve his political ends.
Jinnah's ideas about what the new state should be like were very clear as can be seen from his speeches and statements.
Jinnah subsequently changed his stance and took on the view that the Muslims constituted a separate nation in terms of language, culture and way of life.
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 ASSESSING JINNAH
Jinnah said in his speech at the Convention: "We are all sons of the soil.
Jinnah laid bare his heart in a much neglected speech at Aligarh in February 1938 in which he recalled the past: "At that time there was no pride in me and I used to beg from the Congress." The first "shock" came at the RTC; the next, in 1937.
Amazingly, Jinnah's superb record as an MP remains yet to be studied - as a member of the Central Legislative Assembly he spoke on a variety of subjects; the Motor Vehicles and the Post Office Acts included.
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 ::Muhammed Jinnah::
Jinnah, along with Ghandi and Nehru, played a fundamental role in India's history in the Twentieth Century.
Jinnah was born in 1876 and died in 1948.
Jinnah is considered to be the founding father of Pakistan.
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 itsPakistan - Pakistan - Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As a result of Jinnah's ceaseless efforts, the Muslims awakened from what Professor Baker calls (their) "unreflective silence" (in which they had so complacently basked for long decades), and to "the spiritual essence of nationality" that had existed among them for a pretty long time.
A man such as Jinnah, who had fought for the inherent rights of his people all through his life and who had taken up the somewhat unconventional and the largely misinterpreted cause of Pakistan, was bound to generate violent opposition and excite implacable hostility and was likely to be largely misunderstood.
But what is most remarkable about Jinnah is that he was the recipient of some of the greatest tributes paid to any one in modern times, some of them even from those who held a diametrically opposed viewpoint.
www.itspakistan.net /pakistan/quaid-e-azam.aspx   (4088 words)

  
 The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Advani, Jinnah and the secularism debate
Finally, Jinnah said on March 28, 1948, in Dhaka that "Pakistan is the embodiment of the unity of the Muslim nation and so it must remain." (Jinnah's Speeches and Statements as Governor General 1947-48, pp 211-212).
Jinnah's threefold position, if translated into Hindu terms in India, would yield not merely the transitional position but the complete Hindutva position as both state and nation would be defined in Hindu terms.
Jinnah's stand on the Khilafat issue, which arose in and after World War I, is sometimes cited in support of this view.
www.hindu.com /2005/06/11/stories/2005061102261000.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Ali Jinnah - His Personality and His Politics
Jinnah was undermined by Hindu politicians to their own loss because the pretence not to understand him led to the partition of the subcontinent.
Jinnah's greatness lies in the fact that at all times he presented himself as he really was, irrespective of how others wanted him to behave.
Jinnah's relations with the Congress lasted only long enough for him to discover its true nature, which he found incompatible with the aspirations of the Muslims who longed for their civil and political rights to be protected under constitutional and electoral guarantees.
www.muslimedia.com /archives/book98/jinnahbk.htm   (1738 words)

  
 The house that Jinnah built
Jinnah replied on August 16: "Thank you for your letter dated the 30th of July and for all the trouble that you have taken, and to Jawaharlal for giving careful considerations to this case.
Jinnah was then in Quetta, a dying man. He breathed his last on his arrival at Karachi on September 11, 1948.
Jinnah himself sowed the seeds of autocracy and East Pakistan's alienation.
www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2022/stories/20031107000407500.htm   (3515 words)

  
 Jinnah Debate in NFB
Jinnah was famous for his "Jinnah Cap." At least that is what we were told by the propaganda machine of Pakistan.
Jinnah was startled by the mild protest of the Dhaka University students.
Most Bangladeshi critics of Jinnah ignored the fact that the partition of Bengal (and of India) was as much the outcome of the two-nation theory of the Muslims as it was the result of Hindu unwillingness to accept the prospect of an undivided Bengal ruled by the Muslim majority.
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 Jinnah's secularism
JINNAH was then a member of the Congress, a president of the Muslim League, and architect, along with Tilak, of the Pact between the two bodies at their sessions in Lucknow in 1916.
It was the same Jinnah who famously declared on August 11, 1947: "Now, if we want to make this great state of Pakistan happy and prosperous we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
Jinnah's reference to "a nation of 400 million" rather than the "Muslim nation of 100 million" implied rejection of the two-nation theory.
www.flonnet.com /fl2213/stories/20050701004602300.htm   (1192 words)

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