Official Correspondence and Communications Involving M.A. Jinnah with British Authorities

Sub title : From the First Round Table Conference to the Simla Conference

Subject: Round Table Conference | Viceregal Correspondence | Lahore High Court Scandals | British Colonial Administration

Date of publication: 1930

Language: English

Page: 43 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28336

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- Lord Linlithgow -- Lord Wavell -- Viceroy -- Round Table Conference -- Simla Conference (1945) | Wavell Plan -- Executive Council -- Muslim League Working Committee | Lahore High Court -- Scandal -- Corruption -- Hastings Road | New Delhi -- Government House Ootacamund -- Interim Government -- Bengal -- F. J. Burrows | Calcutta Riots 1946 -- Famine -- Jute Price Control -- Communal Violence -- G. N. Naidoo -- Cape Indian Association.

Abstract: This collection consists of official and personal correspondence to and from Muhammad Ali Jinnah, primarily with British Viceroys and government officials. It traces his political engagements from an invitation to the First Round Table Conference in 1930 through administrative interactions in the late 1930s, to the crucial constitutional negotiations of the mid-1940s. Highlights include a detailed 1936 complaint about corruption in the Lahore High Court, correspondence regarding the Wavell Plan and the formation of an Executive Council in 1945 (where Jinnah insists all Muslim members must be from the League), and a 1946 Governor's report on the tense political and famine situation in Bengal. A congratulatory telegram from South Africa on the apparent Nehru-Jinnah coalition in the Interim Government is also included.

Description: This collection provides a behind-the-scenes look at the formal and administrative interface between M.A. Jinnah and the British Raj over 16 critical years. It moves from cordial invitations to stark political negotiations, revealing Jinnah's legalistic precision, his growing insistence on the Muslim League as the sole representative of Indian Muslims, and the practical challenges of governance during the volatile mid-1940s. The documents complement ideological pronouncements by showing the mechanics of political negotiation, administrative grievances, and the daily realities of colonial rule against which the demand for Pakistan was formulated. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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