Letter to Quaid-e-Azam M.A. Jinnah on the British Government's Proposals

Sub title : A Bengali Muslim Perspective on the Cabinet Mission Plan

Subject: Cabinet Mission Plan (1946) | Pakistan Movement | Muslim League | Bengal Politics

Date of publication: 1942

Language: English

Page: 2 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27730

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- A. Quasem -- Muslim League | Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 -- Pakistan | Bengal Legislative Assembly -- European Bloc | Hindu-Muslim Politics -- Referendum -- Partition

Abstract: This is a letter from A. Quasem, a Bengali Muslim politician, to M.A. Jinnah, the leader of the All-India Muslim League. Written in response to the British Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946, Quasem vehemently rejects the proposals as "unsatisfactory and unacceptable" for Bengal. He argues that the Bengal Legislative Assembly's composition, which includes 25 Europeans who he believes will side with the Hindu bloc, does not reflect the Muslim majority and will prevent the realization of Pakistan. He proposes that only Muslim legislators should decide on accession to the Indian Union and that the ultimate referendum should be limited to the adult Muslim male population of Bengal.

Description: A typed letter from A. Quasem, a member of the Bengal Legislative Council and various Muslim League committees, addressed to Quaid-e-Azam M.A. Jinnah. The letter is a critical response to the constitutional proposals presented by the British Cabinet Mission in 1946. It provides a crucial perspective from a Bengali Muslim leader who felt that the plan's mechanism for provincial grouping would undermine the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan in Bengal. The document highlights the internal political anxieties and strategic calculations within the Muslim League regarding the future of Bengal during the final years of British rule in India. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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