In fact, that was the essence of the opt-out provision in Cripp’s proposal. That remained his League’s single most important demand.” While the wording of the resolution was ambiguous, Wolpert says “When Jinnah was questioned by journalists the next morning he insisted it meant one Pakistan. Jinnah cited how the killing of a cow was a cardinal offence for the Hindus but ‘meant nothing to Muslims.’įifth, the 1940 Pakistan Resolution approved in Lahore meant two independent states, one in the northwest and one in the northeast. He meant the differences in their way of life, stemming directly from the differences in their faiths. Jinnah was clearly talking about differences in Muslim and Hindu identity arising out from religious differences rather than about their ethnic differences. How are you to put 100 millions of Muslims together with 250 million whose way of life is so different?”Īdditional talks between the British and Indian leaders ‘might have helped all parties to agree that cooperation was much wiser than conflict’ Mountbatten says Jinnah cited the fundamental religious differences between Hindus and Muslims to Cripps: “Muslims have a different conception of life from the Hindus…. Five months after the Second World War begun, Jinnah spoke at the League’s ‘largest and most important meeting in Lahore,’ and announced unequivocally his intention to create ‘an independent nation-state of Pakistan.’ Jinnah demanded the creation of Pakistan as ‘Muslim India’s post-war reward for the service of its loyal troops and for the support Muslims leaders provided to the viceroy and his governors.’įourth, Pakistan did not have religion in its DNA. Wolpert says that “Jinnah was wise enough to take full advantage of official British favouritism” toward the Muslims. Churchill strongly ‘favoured Jinnah over Gandhi’ and ‘the idea of Pakistan.’ Jinnah wrote to Prime Minister Attlee, calling the proposals put forward by the Cabinet mission as a betrayal of the Muslim League and a concession to the Congress’s vision of a Hindu Raj, and he also sent a copy of the letter to Churchill.
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