Telegrams and Confidential Letters to M.A. Jinnah

Sub title : From a Plea for a Comrade's Health to a Proposal for a United Bengal

Subject: Indian Independence Movement | Bengal Partition | All-India Muslim League | Indian National Congress

Date of publication: 1942

Language: English

Page: 7 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27823

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- Sarat Chandra Bose -- S.C. Bose -- Bengal Partition -- United Bengal | Constituent Assembly -- Muslim League -- Indian Independence -- 1947 -- Political Negotiation.

Abstract: This collection contains two significant sets of correspondence. The first is a 1942 letter from S.C. Bose to Jinnah, conveying personal regards and serious health concerns regarding his brother and prominent Congress leader, Sarat Chandra Bose, who was imprisoned by the British. The second, and most historically significant, is a confidential 1947 letter from Sarat Chandra Bose himself, making a last-minute appeal to Jinnah to instruct Muslim League members in the Bengal Assembly to vote for a united, independent Bengal as a "third force," separate from both India and Pakistan. This proposal aimed to avert the partition of Bengal.

Description: This file presents a fascinating juxtaposition of personal concern and high-stakes political strategy. It begins with a humanizing letter showing cross-party communication regarding the health of an imprisoned leader. Its centerpiece, however, is a crucial secret proposal from June 1947, just weeks before Partition. Sarat Chandra Bose's desperate letter to Jinnah outlines a specific voting strategy for Muslim League legislators to keep Bengal united as a sovereign state, revealing a dramatic, lesser-known alternative to the eventual partition of Bengal and Punjab. This document is critical for understanding the final, frantic negotiations that shaped the map of modern South Asia. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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