International Muslim Solidarity and Post-War Concerns

Sub title : Firsthand accounts of Muslim persecution in Southeast Asia, political strategies in Assam

Subject: Palestine Day controversy | Persecution of Muslims in Japanese-occupied Burma, Malaya, and Indonesia

Date of publication: 1938

Language: English

Page: 63 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28416

Keyword: Palestine Day -- Arab League -- Muslim Persecution -- Burma -- Arakan -- Malaya -- Indonesia -- Assam -- Bardoloi -- Marwari | Bengal Famine -- Zionism -- Indian Troops in Indonesia -- Post-War -- M.A. Jinnah

Abstract: This collection spans the late pre-war and immediate post-World War II period, focusing on the international and domestic concerns of Indian Muslims as articulated to the Muslim League leadership. It opens with a public critique from "Elizabeth Sharpe" against the League's observance of a Palestine Day in 1938, appealing for peace and scriptural obedience. The core of the file consists of a detailed, anonymous memorandum from "B.I.A.F. personnel" (likely servicemen) providing grim firsthand accounts of the targeted persecution and killing of Muslims by Japanese and Burmese forces in Burma and Arakan, and warning of Hindu political maneuvering in Malaya and Assam.

Description: A compelling collection that bridges the humanitarian crises of World War II with the dawn of the post-colonial order. It reveals the Muslim League's role as a perceived guardian of Muslim interests both within India and across the Islamic world, from the rice fields of Burma to the holy land of Palestine. The documents capture the visceral fears of communal violence and displacement, the strategic paranoia of contemporary politics, and the earnest diplomatic outreach from emerging Arab and Asian nationalist movements seeking India's moral and political support in their own struggles for justice and independence. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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