Muslim League Correspondence and Communal Issues

Sub title : International Support from Singapore, and Symbolic Debates on the "Jinnah Cap"

Subject: Muhammad Ali Jinnah | All India Muslim League | Hindu-Muslim Relations | Religious Conversion

Date of publication: 1938

Language: English

Page: 523 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28401

Keyword: Muslim League Madras Meeting -- Kadir Batcha Conversion Case -- Singapore Muslim Merchants -- Jinnah Cap | Hindu-Muslim Tensions -- Tamil Nadu Communal Conflict -- Religious Reconversion -- 1938 Correspondence -- Simla Letters -- International Support

Abstract: This collection from 1938 includes diverse correspondence addressed to Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, featuring an invitation to a unity meeting in Madras, a passionate political letter referencing "Pakistan," and a detailed legal petition from Tamil Nadu concerning the attempted reconversion of a Muslim convert's family. Also present are letters of financial support from Muslim merchants in Singapore, a request for Jinnah's photograph from a Hindi newspaper, and a critique about the "Jinnah cap" not being manufactured in India, alongside routine organizational responses from Jinnah's office in Simla.

Description: This file contains 1938 correspondence highlighting regional and international dimensions of Muslim League activism. Key documents include an invitation to a Muslim unity meeting in Madras organized by twelve Islamic associations. A notable political letter warns of Hindu nationalism and mentions "Pakistan." The core of the collection centers on a distressing case from Nachiyarkoil, Tamil Nadu, involving Kadir Batcha, a Harijan convert to Islam, whose wife and daughters were allegedly taken by local Congress workers attempting forced reconversion—complete with a court petition and resolutions from a Muslim meeting. International support is evidenced by letters from Singaporean Muslim merchants remitting funds via P. Kalifulla. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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