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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 June 2011
      18 April 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511558856
      9780521458504
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558856
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.485kg, 336 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (31)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (31)
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    In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.

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    ‘Jalal’s monograph is an important contribution which no student of modern South Asia can ignore. The central theme is original, provocative, stimulating and in places quite exhilarating …’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    ‘The strength of Jalal’s work is her forthright repudiation of the historicist assumption that because an independent Pakistan came into existence such a state was intended by Jinnah as he campaigned for ‘Pakistan’ from 1940–1947.’

    Source: The American Historical Review

    ‘Ayesha Jalal’s is a well researched, well written and more or less dispassionate study of the factors leading to the creation of Pakistan - indeed India’s Partition.’

    Source: The Economic Times (Bombay)

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