Correspondence and Telegrams Regarding the Shia-Sunni Conflict and Appeals to M.A. Jinnah

Sub title : Madh-e-Sahaba Agitation in Lucknow, 1938-1939

Subject: Shia-Sunni Conflict | Madh-e-Sahaba | Tabarra Agitation | Muslim League Policy

Date of publication: 1937

Language: English

Page: 139 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27483

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah — Muhammad Ali Jinnah — Quaid-e-Azam — Muslim League | Shia — Sunni — Sectarian Conflict — Madh-e-Sahaba | Tabarra — Lucknow — United Provinces — Anjuman | Civil Disobedience — Government Resolution — 1939 — Indian Independence

Abstract: This collection of documents from 1938-1939 centers on the sectarian "Madh-e-Sahaba" and "Tabarra" conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims in Lucknow, United Provinces. It primarily consists of appeals, telegrams, and letters sent to M.A. Jinnah in his capacity as President of the All India Muslim League. The correspondents, representing various Shia and Sunni anjumans (associations), urgently request his intervention, a definitive statement of the Muslim League's policy on the issue, and his leadership to prevent a wider sectarian clash in India.

Description: This file is a primary source archive documenting a critical sectarian dispute in pre-partition India and the subsequent appeals to M.A. Jinnah as the paramount leader of Indian Muslims. It includes a Government Notification with the official report on the controversy, passionate editorials from Shia perspectives (e.g., "The Moonlight"), telegrams pleading for intervention, and personal letters criticizing Jinnah's initial non-intervention. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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