M.A. Jinnah: Political Negotiations with the Indian National Congress

Sub title : Correspondence with Nehru on the Interim Government and with Gandhi (1944-1946)

Subject: Constitutional History | India-Politics and Government-1919-1947 | Gandhi-Jinnah Talks (1944)

Date of publication: 1946

Language: English

Page: 127 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27414

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah — Jawaharlal Nehru — Mahatma Gandhi | Interim Government — Cabinet Mission Plan | Muslim League — Congress — Gandhi-Jinnah Talks | Lahore Resolution — Pakistan — Constitutional Negotiations

Abstract: This file contains the crucial correspondence between M.A. Jinnah and the top leadership of the Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. The core of the collection is the failed October 1946 negotiations between Jinnah and Nehru regarding the Muslim League's entry into the Interim Government, detailing disputes over representation, the "grouping" scheme in the Cabinet, and the Congress's rejection of Jinnah's key conditions.

Description: This collection captures two pivotal moments in the final decade of British India. The 1944 Gandhi-Jinnah correspondence reveals the personal and political overtures that set the stage for their direct talks on Pakistan. The 1946 Nehru-Jinnah letters represent the final, critical attempt to form a united Interim Government before partition became inevitable. The documents lay bare the irreconcilable differences between the Congress and the League on fundamental issues of representation, sovereignty, and the interpretation of constitutional plans SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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