Comments on: All India Muslim League, 1906-2006

By: Xtina Vengeance

Xtina Vengeance — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:39:11 +0000

I just wanted to say thank you. This helped me greatly with my history paper and it’s very detailed information. It was utterly fascinating and it was great. Thanks again.

By: karuthamma

karuthamma — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:32:39 +0000

I would love to read Gilmartin’s and Menon’s papers from the colloquium. Pl. let me know how to access them.

By: mehvish fiaz

mehvish fiaz — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:43:57 +0000

Yes its very true for all of us to pass cheap comments on our leaders but if some of us is being sent in those days then we will understand why they decide for partition we people had learn only to pin point but never feel shame of it but my self i respect them from the bottom of my heart. Pakistan Zindabad, and why all brtish came there do we have any idea coz of our irresponsiblities ,discremnation etc

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:44:09 +0000

Sepoy: this is one of your best; superb stuff (but then, you get that a lot, don’t you? :-))

By: Mariam

Mariam — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:29:44 +0000

C.M. Naeem states

The chief leaders of the Pakistan movement were not obscurantist mullahs; they were in fact some of the most “modernist” Muslims of their time. They also belonged to an elite section of the community which had its own motive of self-preservation. Their veneer of modernism hid a basically exploitative nature, concerned with obtaining privileges, not equal rights. In a most blatant fashion they used the emotional attachment of the Muslim masses to religion for their own ends.

Alas, its so true

By: ayesha

ayesha — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:10:19 +0000

Fascinating piece! I will definitely dig into the colloquium material. I myself have been trying to understand the development of the TNT and the concept of Pakistan - but I have looking at it with reference to the main leaders and as a socio-political phenomenon. But after reading your post, I realised that viewing it thorough the evolution of the ML would provide an interesting narrative too. Of course, the evolution of the ML itself would be a compelling investigation on it’s on. I will definitely keep an eye out for any more posts from you on the topic. Nice stuff!

By: Red

Red — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:37:19 +0000

Fascinating, particularly Gilmartin’s paper. I have always been curious about the speed at which the League was dismantled in India after independendce. 28 members of the League actually joined the Indian Constituent Assembly, but Chaudhary Khaliquzzaman, the leader, defects to Pakistan. Some others like Z.H. Lari eventually leave and finally Begum Azizaz Rasul leads the remaining members into the Congress. Azad in his biography gives the picture of a leaderless League running around in confusion. I would love to know of insider accounts of the same period.

By: Pakistan » Blog Archive » Pakistan to mine border with Afghanistan

Pakistan » Blog Archive » Pakistan to mine border with Afghanistan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:56:53 +0000

[...] Ask me now to tell you what is the Ideology of Pakistan and I will recite the mantra, Pakistan ka Matlab Kiya? La Illaha Illal Lah [What does Pakistan mean? No God but One]. The ideology of Pakistan, in Zia ul Haq s Pakistan, was Islam. … – more – [...]

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:01:33 +0000

Fantastic stuff, thanks!