M.A. Jinnah Archival Collection – Personal, Financial, and Official Papers

Sub title : Correspondence, Invoices, Legal Matters, and Partition Committee Reports

Subject: Comprehensive collection of M.A. Jinnah’s personal | financial, legal and official papers spanning

Date of publication: 1935

Language: English

Page: 18 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28060

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- personal finance -- bank statement -- stock shares -- Tata Iron & Steel -- Dalal & Co. -- Maple & Company -- legal fees -- Kashmir customs | Partition of India 1947 -- Expert Committee -- asset division -- railway valuation -- home department -- labour department -- works and power department -- communications department -- legislative assembly.

Abstract: This diverse archive includes personal financial records (bank statements, stock dividend queries, invoices for books and furnishings), household and legal correspondence, and extensive official reports from the Partition committees of 1947. The latter detail the division of assets and liabilities—railways, home department, works & power, communications, labour, and legislative assembly—between India and Pakistan. The collection offers insight into Jinnah’s private life, professional practice, and his central role in the administrative creation of Pakistan.

Description: This collection comprises the multi-faceted papers of M.A. Jinnah, blending the private with the profoundly public. It includes routine yet revealing documents like chemist invoices, furnishing bills, and brokerage correspondence about share dividends, illustrating his lifestyle and financial dealings in the 1930s. Intermingled are official letters, such as one from the Kashmir Customs & Excise regarding a parcel. The core of the collection, however, is the exhaustive set of reports, minutes, and dissenting notes from the various Expert Committees (Nos. II, V, etc.) tasked with the monumental and contentious process of dividing the assets and liabilities of British India between the two new dominions in 1947. These documents cover critical sectors like railways, communications, and civil administration, revealing the logistical, financial, and political complexities of Partition and Jinnah’s overarching involvement in the formation of the Pakistani state. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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