Imperial Legislative Council of India: Members of Imperial Legislative Council of India, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Chapters: Members of Imperial Legislative Council of India, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Raja of Panagal, Bardhaman Raj, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Madan Mohan Malaviya, C. Vijayaraghavachariar, the Kapurthala Royal Collateral Families, T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, T. S. S. Rajan, Eardley Norton, Pherozeshah Mehta, Nawab Bahadur Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury, G. S. Khaparde, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Ripudaman Singh of Nabha, Mulana Mazharul Haque, Government of India Act 1919, Muhammad Shafi, Ghulam Muhammad Ali Khan, G. N. Chetty, Sassoon J. David. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Urdu: ·)); December 25, 1876 September 11, 1948) was a 20th century lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam (Urdu: "Great Leader") and Baba-e-Qaum () ("Father of the Nation"). Jinnah served as leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence on August 14, 1947 and Pakistan's first Governor-General from August 15, 1947 until his death on September 11, 1948. Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress initially expounding ideas of Hindu-Muslim unity and helping shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress; he also became a key leader in the All India Home Rule League. He proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing India. Jinnah later advocated the Two-Nation Theory embracing the goal of creating a separate Muslim state as per the Lahore Resolution. The League won most reserved Muslim seats in the elections of 1946. After the British and Congress backed out of the Cabinet Mi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=400989