Letters from G.M. Asmat Ali Khan to M.A. Jinnah and Lord Wavell

Sub title : Proposals for Islamic Holy War, Demands for Pakistan as Islamic Restoration

Subject: Islamic Militancy | Millenarian Islam | Pakistan Demand | Islamic Government of India | G.M. Asmat Ali Khan

Date of publication: 1945

Language: English

Page: 5 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28347

Keyword: G.M. Asmat Ali Khan -- Junaid Rabbi Poor Muslim League -- Islamic Government -- Pakistan | Ghazi -- Mujahid -- Holy War -- Jihad -- Millenarianism | Buckingham Palace -- Lord Wavell -- M.A. Jinnah -- Conspiracy

Abstract: This collection consists of fervent, ideologically extreme letters written by G.M. Asmat Ali Khan, self-styled President of the "Junaid Rabbi Poor Muslim League of India." Addressed to M.A. Jinnah and Lord Wavell, the letters offer a force of one lakh Ghazis and three thousand Bengali Mujahids (holy warriors) to establish Islamic rule, framing Pakistan as the rightful restoration of Muslim sovereignty over India won by conquest. They contain grandiose claims, including having submitted a scheme for an "Islamic Government of India" directly to Buckingham Palace, writing to Hitler, and making allegations of massive bribes by Gandhi and Nehru to the British.

Description: This collection presents a starkly different voice within the spectrum of Muslim political discourse in mid-1940s India. Unlike the constitutional and political arguments of the mainstream Muslim League, these documents emanate from a fringe, militant, and millenarian perspective. The author articulates a vision of Pakistan not merely as a homeland but as the revival of Islamic imperial sovereignty, justified by conquest and to be achieved through the mobilization of holy warriors. The letters are characterized by a mix of religious zeal, personal grandiosity, wild historical claims, and conspiratorial accusations against both the British and the Congress. They serve as a historical artifact of the radical, non-mainstream ideologies that existed at the margins of the Pakistan movement. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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