Collected Interviews and Statements of Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Sub title : On the White Paper, Pakistan Demand, Two-Nation Theory

Subject: White Paper | Round Table Conferences | Pakistan Movement | Two-Nation Theory | Hindu-Muslim Relations

Date of publication: 1933

Language: English

Page: 82 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28335

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- White Paper 1933 -- Government of India Act 1935 -- Governor-General | Dictatorship -- Bureaucracy -- Steel Frame -- Pakistan -- Hindustan | Two-Nation Theory -- Gandhi-Jinnah Talks -- Rajagopalachari Formula -- Plebiscite | Interim Government -- Muslim League -- Indian National Congress | Partition 1947 -- Muslim Minority -- Identity -- Purdah | Quran -- Alfred Wagg -- Stuart Gelder -- Aurangzeb Road.

Abstract: This collection comprises various documents centered on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's political thought. It includes his sharp critique of the 1933-34 White Paper (forerunner to the 1935 Act) as a tool of British control; detailed press reports from his 1944 talks with Gandhi, explaining the failure and articulating the demand for sovereign Pakistan; a 1944 radio interview explaining the fundamental differences between Muslims and Hindus; a fragment arguing against a Congress-led national government; and a poignant, firsthand account of his final advice to Muslims remaining in India just days before Partition, urging them to maintain identity while adapting.

Description: A multi-document archive tracing the evolution of Jinnah's political stance from a critic of inadequate British constitutional reforms to the unequivocal proponent of Pakistan. The documents showcase his legalistic deconstruction of colonial schemes, his diplomatic breakdown of failed negotiations, his public articulation of Muslim nationhood, and his private, pragmatic counsel to his co-religionists facing a future as a minority in independent India. The collection includes primary source material such as interview transcripts, personal correspondence, press wire copies, and a memoir of a final meeting. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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