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In Quest of Jinnah Contents Acknowledgements xiii Preface xv SHARIF AL MUJAHID Introduction xvii LIAQUAT H. MERCHANT, SHARIF AL MUJAHID Publisher's Note xxi AMEENA SAIYID SECTION 1: ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON JINNAH 1 1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah: One of the Greatest Statesmen of the Twentieth Century 2 STANLEY WOLPERT 2. Partition and the Birth of Pakistan 4 JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH 3. World of His Fathers 7 FOUAD AJAMI 4. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah 12 LIAQUAT H. MERCHANT 5. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: A Historian s Perspective 17 S.M. BURKE 6. Jinnah: A Portrait 19 SHARIF AL MUJAHID 7. Quaid-i-Azam's Personality and its Role and Relevance in the Achievement of Pakistan 32 SIKANDAR HAYAT 8. Mohammad Ali Jinnah 39 KULDIP NAYAR 9. M.A. Jinnah: The Official Biography 43 M.R. KAZIMI 10. The Official Biography: An Evaluation 49 SHARIF AL MUJAHID 11. Inheriting the Raj: Jinnah and the Governor-Generalship Issue 59 AYESHA JALAL 12. Constitutional Set-up of Pakistan as Visualised by Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah 76 S. SHARIFUDDIN PIRZADA 13. Jinnah—Two Perspectives: Secular or Islamic and Protector General ot Minorities 84 LIAQUAT H. MERCHANT 14. Jinnah on Civil Liberties 92 A.G. NOORANl 15. Jinnah and Women s Emancipation 96 SHARIF AL MUJAHID 16. Jinnah s 'Gettysburg Address' 106 AKBAR S. AHMED 17. The Two Saviours: Ataturk and Jinnah 110 MUHAMMAD ALI SIDDIQUI 18. The Quaid and the Princely States of India 115 SHAHARYAR M. KHAN 19. Reminiscences 121 JAVID IQBAL 20. Jinnah as seen by Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah,Aga Khan III 127 LIAQUAT H. MERCHANT SECTION 2: QUOTES FROM THE QUAID 133 SECTION 3: EXCERPTS FROM THE SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS OF THE QUAID 147 1. Mussalman Wakf Validating Bill, 17 March 1911 148 2. Moving the Report of the Select Committee on the Mussalman Wakf Validating Bill, April 1913 151 3. Jinnah's Address to the Court in the Case Bal Gangadhar Tilak vs King Emperor, 8 November 1916 151 4. On the Report of the 'Rowlatt Committee and Montagu—Chelmsford Reform Proposals', 15 April 1918 155 5. On the Criminal Law (Emergency Powers) Bill, 6 February 1919 156 6. In Opposition to the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 12 September 1929 157 7. Islam—A Code of Life, Eid Message, September 1945 158 8. Safeguarding the Rights of Minorities, 14 July 1947 159 viu 9. The Duty of a Government and the Freedom of its Citizens, 11 August 1947 160 10. Pakistan: A Moral and Intellectual Achievement, 31 August 1947 161 11. Pakistan's Relations with India, 11 March 1948 161 12. Duty to the State, 12 April 1948: Reply to the Address Presented by the Students of the Islamia College, Peshawar 161 13. A Democratic and Islamic Constitution for Pakistan, 26 February 1948, in a Broadcast to the People of the United States of America, Recorded in February 1948 161 14. Dangers of Provincialism, 21 March 1948, Addressing a Public Meeting in Dhaka 162 15. Banking Practices and Islamic Ideals, 1 July 1948, at the Opening Ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan 163 SECTION 4: EXCERPTS FROM BOOKS ON THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT 165 1. Joachim Alva, Leaders of India, Thackerland Ltd, Bombay, 1943 166 2. V.N. Naik, MrJinnah:A Political Study, Sadbhakti Publications, Bombay, 1947 166 3. Woodrow Wyatt, Confessions of an Optimist, Collins, London, 1985 167 4. Ajeet Jawed, Secular and Nationalist Jinnah, Kitab Publishing House. New Delhi, 1998 167 5. H.V. Hodson, Tlie Great Divide, OUP, Karachi, 1997 168 6. Muhammad Yusuf Buch, 'The Two Prototypes: Jinnah and Gandhi', Pakistan: Past and Present, Stacey International, London, 1976 168 7. Sharif al Mujahid (ed.), In Quest of Jinnah, OUP, Karachi, 2007 172 • Francis Mudie,'Recollections' 172 • Ian Stephens,'Jinnah' 172 • Percival Spear,'Jinnah, the Creator of Pakistan' 173 • T.W. Hutton,'Mohammed Ali Jinnah' 174 SECTION 5: IMPRESSIONS 177 1. Beverley Nichols 178 2. Edgar Snow 178 3. Lady Wavell 178 4. Aga Khan III 178 SECTION 6: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS 179 1. Sarojini Naidu 180 ix 2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 182 3. Dewan Chaman Lai 182 4. Frank Moraes 183 5. M.A.H. Ispahan! 184 6. Begum Geti Ara Bashir Ahmad 185 7. S.M.Yusuf 185 8. B.R.Ambedkar 187 9. P.Atkinson Laurence 187 10. Yusuf Meherally 187 11. Edwin Samuel Montagu 188 12. D.F. Karaka 188 13. R.G.Casey 188 14. H.V. Hodson 189 15. Princess Abida Sultaan 191 16. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan 192 17. Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah 192 18. S. Hashim Raza 195 19. Justice (retd.) Z.A. Channa 197 20. Ata Rabbani 199 21. Yusuf A. Haroon 200 22. Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada 201 SECTION 7: TRIBUTES 205 1. Lord Louis Mountbatten 206 2. H.V. Hodson 212 3. President Harry S.Truman 212 4. George Marshall 212 5. Lord Pethick-Lawrence 213 6. Sir Stafford Cripps 213 7. Sir Olaf Caroe 214 8. Sarat Chandra Bose 214 9. Sir Cowasji Jehangir 214 10. Sir R.K. Shanmukham Chetty 215 11. Chaudri Zafarullah Khan 215 12. Muhammad Iqbal 215 SECTION 8: ARTICLES ON JINNAH 217 1. Quaid-i-Azam and the Demand for Partition 218 GOWHER RIZVI 2. M.A. Jinnah as the Ambassador of Hindu—Muslim Unity 227 KARL REINHOLD HAELLQUIST X 3. A Soviet Perspective 242 YU.V. GANKOVSKY 4. Quaid-i-Azam as I Knew Him 245 ALTAF HUSAIN 5. Jinnah, in a Class of His Own 251 EQBAL AHMAD 6. Jinnah: Leadership and Political Orientation 254 HASAN-ASKARI RIZVI 7. The Quaid as a Statesman 258 MAHDI MASUD 8. Bring Back Jinnah's Pakistan 263 ARDESHIR COWASJEE SECTION 9: THE JINNAH SOCIETY: FOCUS ON JINNAH'S IDEALS, PRINCIPLES, AND VISION 267 LIAQUAT H. MERCHANT SECTION 10: THE QUAID'SWILL 283 SECTION 11: THE DAWN TRUST 285 SECTION 12: JUDGMENTS 289 1. Excerpt from the Judgment of Justice Abdul Kadir Sheikh of the High Court of Sind 289 2. Excerpt from the Judgment of Justice Abdul Hayee Kureshi and Justice Abdul Razzak A. Thahim of the High Court of Sindh 290 SECTION 13: THE QUAID'S LAST RITES 293 MOHAMMED ALY RANGOONWALA SECTION 14: OBITUARY/EDITORIAL 297 1. From Tlie Times (London) 297 2. From The Hindu (Madras [Chennai] India) 298 SECTION 15: THE QUAID'S LIFE: A CHRONOLOGY 301 The Editors 311 Comments on the Second Edition 313 Index 317 xi.
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