Volume I
Speeches and Statements
March 1935 March 1940
From a study of this volume, the reader will observe how Jinnah organized the Muslim League from the grass roots and mass support for it mobilized, how the League attained popularity such as it never had done before since it birth in 1906 and how the League gathered strength enough to be able to speak to the Congress and the Government not only on a level of equality but also be able to exercise the veto against one-sided power devolution.
Volume II
Speeches and Statements
April 1940 April 1942
In order to enlist Indian cooperation in the war effort, Britain offered concessions to the Indian nationalist leaders, the main being the offer of the British government brought to India personality by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior member of the War Cabinet. For obvious reasons, this was a period of great worry for the Quaid, that in the race for power his community should not be overwhelmed by the Congress as during 1937-39.
Volume III
Annotated Speeches and Statements
May 1942 May 1944
The present volume of The Nation's Voice (Vol. III) comprises Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's annotated speeches and statements, May 1942 - October 1944. The scope of this volume, like that of The Nation's Voice, Vols. I and II published in 1992 and 1996 respectively, has been enlarged to make it a history of the struggle of the Indian Muslims for freedom under Jinnah's stewardship in the crucial period of 1942-1944 following the departure home of Sir Stafford Cripps from his unsuccessful Indian mission in April 1942 to the abortive Junnah-Gandhi talks in September 1944. The story begins from where Volume II of the series had left it. this period (May 1942 - October 1944) roughly coincided with the later months of World War II when the war fortunes of Britiain had steadily improved and the Allies were close to victory. In this success Indian manpower and material help played the key role. It was obvious therefore that the time was not far off when a meaningful devolution of authority leading to a total transfer of power to Indian hands would take place. Ghandhi's Quit India movement was only meant to pressurize Britain to hasten this process, ignore the Muslim League and settle with the Congress. However, government swoop on the Congress High Command on 9 August 1942 hours after the Congress resolution at Bombay baffled Gandhi's calculations and frustrated his strategy.
As Gandhi and his colleagues were incarcerated and the war progressed satisfactorily, British government remained firm in dealing with the Congress leadership. Churchill meanwhile looked for a successor to Linlithgow. Wavell was an unusual choice. He was perhaps the weakest Viceory in the whole history of the British rule in India. He could do little to influence events in India until Churchill remained in power to July 1945. Ghandhi's release on 6 May 1944 on health grounds was perhaps Wavell's only action which he had taken without prior approval for Whitehall.
Jinnah watched these developments with critical interest. It was his strategy to keep his community all over India aloof from the Congress policy of definance and not to deny Britian Muslim support in the war effort even when his demand for a British commitment to partition programme and integration of the Muslim League into the Indian power structure was not adequately met.
Volume IV
Annotated Speeches, Statements and Interviews
November 1942 - April 1944
The present volume of The Nation's Voice (Vol. IV) comprises Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's annotated speeches, statements and interviews during November 1944 - April 1946. The scope of this volume, like that of the previous three volumes of The Nation's Voice, has been enlarged to make it a history of the struggle of the Indian Muslims for freedom under Jinnah's stewardship. The story begins from where Volume III of the series had left it. This period (November 1944- April 1946) coincided with the later months of World War II, the victory of the Allied powers and the steps which were taken in India to resolve the political deadlock and devolve power to Indian hands. Viceroy Wavell desired to Indianlize his Executive Council and set up a constituent assembly, but the die-hard British Prime Minister Winton Churchill resisted. However, his defeat inthe British elections of July 1945 and the inauguration of a Labour government in Britain facilitated Wavell's task. This development also reversed the anti-Congress British approach pursued since Congress resignation from Ministries in 1939 and inaugurated the period of the Congress-British rapprochement for the future. Accordingly, Congress men detained since August 1942 were released and Wavell assembled all key Indian leaders at Simla in June 1945 only to discover that it was the Hindu-Muslim acrimony and not the British disinclination to quit the colony which blocked Indian progress.
Volume V
Annotated Speeches, Statements
Interviews and Message/advice
May 1946 - February 1947
The present volume of The Nation's Voice (Vol. IV) comprises Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's annotated speeches, statements and interviews and message / advice during May 1946 - February 1947. The scope of this volume, like that of the previous four volumes of The Nation's Voice, has been enlarged to make it a history of the struggle of the Indian Muslims for freedom under Jinnah's stewardship. The story begins from where Volume IV of the series had left it. This period (May 1946 - February 1947) coincided with the presence in India of the British Cabinet Mission comprising three senior Ministers (they had arrived here in march 1946), their tortuous and difficult negotiations with the Indian leaders, the Mission's own Plan for the solution of the Indian tangle, the debate and controversy over what the provisions of the Plan actually meant, the Mission's own clarifications about them. Then there was left a question mark whether either of the two Indian parties, the Congress and the Muslim League, had indeed accepted the Plan. Following this was the formation of the Interim Government in September 1946 by the Congress party, Muslim League joining this government the following month. Outside the chamber politics occurred widespread, horrific and unstoppable communal killings.
In the last bid to arrest further deterioration, Prime Minister Attlee invited the chief protagonists to London in December. This also proved unavailing. Seeing total lack of any movement forward. Attlee decided to replace the Viceroy and fix a time limit for British withdraw a land transfer of power, agreement or no agreement among Indians.
As for Jinnah, in a sincere bid to keep India united and hasten freedom, he opted for accepting the Mission Plan and moved away from the long and firmly-held position over Pakistan hoping that the Plan would secure the Muslim position in the long-term. Thenceforward, he felft deeply frustrated by disagreements, Congress bids to sideline Muslims and hold complete sway, and by communal killings of Muslims on a magnitute not hitherto seen in India. Realising that the Muslim League position remained insecure despite its overshelming success at the polls, he went for 'Direct Action' and rejection of the Mission scheme, a position which held till patition.
Volume VI
Annotated Speeches, Statements,
Interviews and Message/Advice
March - August 1947
The present volume of The Nation's Voice (Vol. VI) comprises Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's annotated speeches, statements, interviews and message / advice during March - August 1947. By March 1947 where the present volume takes up the story, the two essential principles of the future of Indian politics had been established - India was to gain independence and was also to be partitioned, both simultaneously on a fixed date. What remained was to devise an administrative mechanism for the purpose and put that mechanism into practice.
Among the highlighted events during this short but very crucial period were the 3rd June Plan of the British government, the antedating of independence from June 1948 to 15 August 147, drafting the rules and regulations to carry out partition, and drawing the lines of division between the two key provinces of the Punjab and Bengal, besides holding referenda in N.-W.F.P., Sylhet and Baluchistan. It is interesting to note that this work of haste suited everybody – Britain, Congress and the Muslim League.
The Principal actors in the story on the British side were the Labour government of Clement Attlee, and in India Viceroy Mountbatten. These two were avowedly pro-Congress. Nehru became thick with Mountbatten. These two were avowedly pro-Congress. Nehru became
Volume VII
Annotated Speeches, Statements,
Interviews and Message/Advice and Death/Condolences
August 1947 - September 1948
The present volume of The Nation's Voice (Vol. VI) comprises Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's annotated speeches, statements, interviews and message / advice. Reports of his death, funeral and condolences are also included in the volume. The period covered is August 1947 to September 1948.
By August 1947 where the present volume takes up the story, the principal goal of the Muslims had been realized and Jinnah had triumphantly landed on the soil of Pakistan to take charge of the state he had founded. The joy and celebration of the accomplishment, however, was marred by the misery and turmoil caused by communal riots leading to the arrival of the devastated, dispossessed and maimed millions of Muslim refugees driven tragically from their homes in the Eastern Punjab, Delhi and elsewhere in India. The resourceless Paksitan already beset with huge economic and administrative problems had also to face the hostility and machinations of the Indian leadership which was resolved to see Pakistan stillborn.
The problems which Jinnah faced during this short but crucial period immediately on becoming Pakistan's first Governor-General were enormous. They included the rehabilitation of refugees, building of the armed forces, formation of governments at the centre and in the provinces, setting up of the civil services, reviving the economy handling the issue of Kashmir, and, finally, dealing with threats from India. Thes challenges were huge, but, despite his failing health, at no stage did his resolve falter. He went up and down the country in its eastern and western wings, supervising everything and providing hope to his people for a better future. In short, the history of Pakistan from August 1947 to his death future. In short, the history of Pakistan from August 1947 to his death was that of Jinnah nursing and fostering the state in face of overwhelming odds.
The editor of this volume, Dr. Waheed Ahmad, received his education at the Universities of the Punjab and Cambridge. He worked as a Research Fellow, Research Society of Pakistan, University of the Punjab, 1969-72. He taught in Nigeria (1972-82) and in the Departments of History and Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 1982-89. He has been working as Director, Quaid-i-Azam Academy, since December 1989.
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