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  Muhammad Ali Jinnah — FactMonster.com
Jinnah was a member of the legislative council of the viceroy from 1910 to 1919.
Jinnah's claim that the Muslim League represented the Muslims of India was substantiated in 1946, when in the elections for the Indian constituent assembly, the League won all the seats assigned to the Muslim electorate.
Jinnah was appointed the first governor-general of the dominion of Pakistan and, although dying of tuberculosis, was elected president of its constituent assembly.
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  Jinnah, Muhammad Ali. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jinnah was a member of the legislative council of the viceroy from 1910 to 1919.
Jinnah’s claim that the Muslim League represented the Muslims of India was substantiated in 1946, when in the elections for the Indian constituent assembly, the League won all the seats assigned to the Muslim electorate.
Jinnah was appointed the first governor-general of the dominion of Pakistan and, although dying of tuberculosis, was elected president of its constituent assembly.
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 Muhammad Ali Jinnah -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jinnah was the eldest of seven children born to Jinnahbhai Poonja (1857–1901), a prosperous Gujarati merchant who had emigrated to Sindh from Kathiawar, Gujarat.
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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 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.
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 JINNAH, Muhammad Ali
Jinnah was born in Karachi on Dec. 25, 1876.
Jinnah broke with the Congress in 1920 over Mohandas Gandhi's policy of noncooperation with the British.
Jinnah accepted a 1946 British plan guaranteeing regional autonomy to the Muslims within a territorially united India, but the plan failed, and the British were forced to create a separate Pakistan (Aug. 15, 1947).
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 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Summary
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 authorized force to achieve the annexation of the princely state of Kalat and suppress the insurgency in Baluchistan.
Jinnah's grandson, Nusli Wadia, is a prominent industrialist residing in Mumbai.
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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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 Muhammad Ali Jinnah,Pakistan's founding father,Quaid E Azam,Great Leader,Born December 25 1876,Died on September 11 1948
Jinnah ably argued that it was not sedition for an Indian to demand freedom and self-government in his own country, but Tilak received a rigorous term of imprisonment.
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 later became estranged from his daughter after she decided to marry Parsi-born Christian businessman, Neville Wadia—even though he had faced the same issues when he desired to marry Rattanbai in 1918.
www.telepk.com /spotlight/muhammad-ali-jinnah.asp   (3363 words)

  
 Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Founder of Pakistan - InfoHub
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is an important figure in the recent history of the Indian subcontinent.
Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876 in Karachi, the capital of Sindh.
In 1910 Jinnah was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council.
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 Quaid E Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,Great Leader,Founder of Pakistan,Governor General of Pakistan,Muslim League,25 ...
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.
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 Quaid E Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,Great Leader,Founder of Pakistan,Governor General of Pakistan,Muslim League,25 ...
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 misinterpreted cause of Pakistan, was bound to generate violent opposition and excite implacable hostility and was likely to be largely misunderstood.
www.telepk.com /personalities/quaideazam.asp   (4036 words)

  
 Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Friends Korner
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, as a budding lawyer.Jinnah was born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai.
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 was the architect of the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the League, bringing them together on most issues regarding Indian self-government and presenting a united stand against the British.
www.friendskorner.com /forum/f39/muhammad-ali-jinnah-333   (2192 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Urdu: محمد على جناح) (December 25 1876 – September 11 1948) was an Indian Muslim politician and leader of the All India Muslim League who founded Pakistan and served as its first Governor-General.
Jinnah was born as Mahomedali Jinnahbhai in Wazir Mansion, Karachi, Sindh—then a province of the Bombay Presidency of British India.
Jinnah authorised force to achieve the annexation of the princely state of Kalat and suppress the insurgency in Baluchistan.
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 Muhammad Ali Jinnah [1876-1948]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born in Karachi on December 25, 1876.
Muhammad Ali received his early education at the Sindh Madrasa and later at the Mission School, Karachi.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah started his political career in 1906 when he attended the Calcutta session of the All India National Congress in the capacity of Private Secretary to the President of the Congress.
www.storyofpakistan.com /person.asp?perid=P009   (231 words)

  
 Muhammad Ali Jinnah information - Search.com
Jinnah was the eldest of five children born to Jinnahbhai Poonja (1857 - 1901), a prosperous Gujarati merchant from Kathiawar, Gujarat.
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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 Muhammad Ali Jinnah biography
Muhammad Ali Jinnah also known as Quaid-e-Azam is one of the greatest leaders of sub-continent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, also known as “Quaid-e-Azam” in the history of India, is not only a great leader of Muslims of Indian sub-continent but he also holds an important position in the row of world politicians.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born in Karachi on 25th December 1876.
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 Jinnah: muhammad ali jinnah, daily jinnah, jinnah gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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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 Jinnah, Muhammad Ali Biography (Political Figure) — Infoplease.com
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a lawyer and politician who fought for the cause of India's independence from Britain, then moved on to found a Muslim state in Pakistan in 1947.
Jinnah entered politics in India in 1905 and by 1917 his charisma and diplomacy had made him a national leader and the most visible supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Jinnah, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Muhammad Ali, 1876–1948, founder of Pakistan, b.
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 Muhammad Ali Jinnah at AllExperts
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Urdu: محمد على جناح; also spelled Mohammad or Mohammed or Mahomed) (December 25 1876 – September 11 1948) was an Indian Muslim and statesman who led the All India Muslim League and founded Pakistan, serving as its first Governor-General.
Some critics allege that Jinnah's courting the princes of Hindu states and his gambit with Junagadh is proof of ill intentions towards India, as he was the proponent of the theory that Hindus and Muslims could not live together, yet being interested in Hindu-majority states.
In spite of being the leader of the Muslim League and the ruler of a Muslim country, Jinnah was surprisngly not an Orthodox Muslim.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mu/muhammad_ali_jinnah.htm   (3808 words)

  
 TIME Magazine | 60 Years of Asian Heroes: Mohammed Ali Jinnah
In Pakistan, Jinnah is venerated because his struggles on behalf of the Muslims of India resulted in the establishment of the country.
Jinnah was a secular, Westernized, British-trained barrister; himself a Muslim, he married a Parsi, spoke mainly in English and wore European clothes.
Jinnah's preferred solution was a legal one: constitutional measures ranging from electoral safeguards to guaranteed representation in state institutions.
www.time.com /time/asia/2006/heroes/nb_jinnah.html   (482 words)

  
 MAJU - Home Page - Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University was established in 1998 after the grant of a charter by the Government of Sindh.
The objective in naming the University after Quaid-e-Azam was to offer the highest quality of education and research.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University's prestigious and spacious Karachi Campus has acquired an enviable reputation for its facilities and quality of education offered.
www.jinnah.edu   (140 words)

  
 Jinnah: Pakistan's founding father
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.
By the late 1930s, Jinnah, who had become leader of the Muslim League, was convinced that a partition of India along religious lines was the only way to preserve Muslim political power.
Jinnah, who by most accounts was not a particularly religious man, called for equal rights for all Pakistani citizens without regard to their religion.
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 Quiad-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah [OurPakistan.net]
Jinnah criticized Gandhi's support of the Khilafat struggle, which he saw as an endorsement of religious zealotry.By 1920, Jinnah resigned from the Congress, warning that Gandhi's method of mass struggle would lead to divisions between Hindus and Muslims and within the two communities.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah also spelled Mohammad or Mohammed or Mahomed)(December 25, 1876 –; September 11, 1948) was an Indian Muslim and statesman who led the All India Muslim League and founded Pakistan, serving as its first Governor-General.
Jinnah had a turbulent time at several different schools, but finally found stability at the Christian Missionary Society High School in Karachi.At home, the family's mother tongue was Gujarati, but members of the household also became conversant in Kutchi, Sindhi and English.
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