Correspondence with Quaid-e-Azam M.A. Jinnah from M.P. Shah on Hindu-Muslim Relations

Sub title : Letters Regarding Economic Boycott Proposals, Jinnah's Responses, and Documentation of Communal Discrimination in Railway Employment

Subject: M.A. Jinnah | M.P. Shah | Hindu-Muslim Relations | Buy Muslim Campaign | Economic Boycott

Date of publication: 1938

Language: English

Page: 285 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28594

Keyword: Jinnah -- M.P. Shah -- Gandhi -- Buy Muslim Campaign -- Economic Boycott | Hindu-Muslim Relations -- Muslim League | Railway Employees -- Communal Discrimination -- N.W. Railway -- Karachi Division -- Amritsar -- 1938 -- 1939 -- 1946 -- Muslim Employment -- Railway Grievances

Abstract: This collection comprises correspondence between M.P. Shah of Amritsar and Quaid-e-Azam M.A. Jinnah spanning 1938-1939, proposing a "Buy Muslim" economic campaign as a response to Hindu treatment of Muslims. The letters include references to Shah's correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah's replies explaining his inability to engage in detailed personal correspondence. Additional documents include railway employees' grievances documenting communal discrimination against Muslims in the N.W. Railway, complaints against officials, and organizational records of Muslim employees' associations.

Description: These documents reveal grassroots Muslim activism and the challenges faced by ordinary Muslims in late colonial India. M.P. Shah's persistent correspondence with Jinnah demonstrates the expectations placed on the Quaid to lead economic campaigns alongside political struggle. Jinnah's measured responses illustrate his pragmatic approach to leadership and the constraints on his time. The railway documents provide detailed evidence of systematic discrimination against Muslim employees, with names, dates, and specific allegations that would have informed Muslim League arguments about the need for Pakistan to protect Muslim economic interests. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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