The Sole Spokesman by Ayesha Jalal
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.
'Jalal's monograph is an important contribution which no student of modern South Asia can ignoreThe central theme is original, provocative, stimulating and in places quite exhilarating …' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'The strength of Jalal's work is her forthright repudiation of the historicist assumption that because an independent Pakistan came into existence such a state was intended by Jinnah as he campaigned for 'Pakistan' from 1940–1947.' The American Historical Review
'Ayesha Jalal's is a well researched, well written and more or less dispassionate study of the factors leading to the creation of Pakistan - indeed India's Partition.' The Economic Times (Bombay)
'The strength of Jalal's work is her forthright repudiation of the historicist assumption that because an independent Pakistan came into existence such a state was intended by Jinnah as he campaigned for 'Pakistan' from 1940–1947.' The American Historical Review
'Ayesha Jalal's is a well researched, well written and more or less dispassionate study of the factors leading to the creation of Pakistan - indeed India's Partition.' The Economic Times (Bombay)
Dr Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Dr Jalal teaches at the History Department and the Fletcher School. She obtained her BA in history and political science from Wellesley College, USA, and her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. Dr Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980-84), Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984-87), Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC (1985-86), and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1988-90). Between 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur Fellow. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tufts University, Columbia University and Harvard University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521458504 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521458501 |
| Title | The Sole Spokesman |
| Author | Ayesha Jalal |
| Series | Cambridge South Asian Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1994-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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