: Ayesha Jalal
: Sole Spokesman Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan
: Cambridge University Press
: 9781139239615
: 1
: CHF 44.60
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: Geschichte
: English
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.