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.
| ISBN: | 9780521458504 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 1994 |
| Author: | Ayesha Columbia University, New York Jalal |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge South Asian Studies |
| Genres: |
Asian history |