Financial and Administrative Correspondence to M.A. Jinnah

Sub title : Donations, Remittances, and the Industrial Planning Committee

Subject: Political History | All India Muslim League | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Economic Planning | Party Finance

Date of publication: 1943

Language: English

Page: 4 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28171

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- Muslim League Funds -- Economic Planning Committee -- Industrial Development -- Donation | Bengal Relief -- Reuters Remittance -- Secunderabad Business -- Muslim Economic Uplift -- World War II Era

Abstract: This collection of letters from 1943-1944 to M.A. Jinnah centers on the financial and economic planning activities of the All India Muslim League. It includes a donation intended for the relief of Bengal's Muslims, an official remittance of funds from Reuters Limited to Jinnah personally, and a significant contribution from a Secunderabad-based firm supporting the newly formed "Planning Committee for the Industrial and Economic development of Muslim India." This last letter highlights a strategic shift towards building Muslim economic power, with the donor praising Jinnah's vision and the committee's potential to foster commercial awakening within the community.

Description: This set of documents provides insight into the financial networks and economic strategies associated with M.A. Jinnah's leadership in the mid-1940s. The correspondence includes a routine yet formal international funds transfer via Reuters, a donation for communal relief, and a strategically important letter discussing and funding Jinnah's initiative to establish an industrial planning committee. The enthusiastic response and substantial financial pledge from the Secunderabad contractor underscore the business community's support for the League's evolving nation-building agenda, which now explicitly included economic self-sufficiency alongside political demands. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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