Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan

by Ali Usman Qasmi (Editor), Megan Eaton Robb (Editor)

The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders and organizations which were opposed to this demand, predicating their opposition to the League on its understanding of the history and ideological content of the Muslim nation. This volume takes stock of multiple narratives about Muslim identity formation in the context of debates about partition, historicizes those narratives, and reads them in the light of the larger political milieu of the period. Focusing on the critiques of the Muslim League, its concept of the Muslim nation, and the political settlement demanded on its behalf, it studies how the movement for Pakistan inspired a contentious, influential conversation on the definition of the Muslim nation.

Genres: Pakistan, History, Islam, India

414 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 15, 2017

Reviews

[Ali Hassan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book consists of different topics written by different people about different personalities who were critics of the idea of Pakistan or at least critics of the way Mr. Jinnah was planning how the country would look like once it establishes.