Word: pakistans
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Conciliation? More likely to bring about a settlement within India-if one is possible-were meetings between political groups outside the Congress party. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem League's opportunistic president, barking for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), came close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla...
Maneuvers. In the face of a national disaster, Indian leaders called repeatedly for United Nations intervention and for a formula to rally the resistant attention of the Indian masses against the potential invaders. One possibility was that Moslems would break down the intransigeant demand of the Moslem league, for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state) and agree to a Hindu-Moslem wartime compromise. The small but tightly organized Indian Communist party (suppressed for eight years until two months ago) urged mediation. The Hindu Mahasabe, third largest political party, issued a resolution which stressed the urgency of a national government...
...negotiations. He was curtly informed that agreement on a program of immediate Indian independence was unlikely. Monocled, shrewd, sardonic Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Qaid-e-Azam (grand leader) and permanent president of the Moslem League, first threatened civil war if the British gave in to Gandhi. Still shouting for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), Jinnah then sought a conference with Gandhi on the question of a wartime national government. Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who resigned from the Congress party in protest against violent threats of nonviolence, suggested arbitration by the United Nations...
...representation, since otherwise India's Moslems would be a permanent minority under the Congress-dominated Hindu majority. The Moslem League claimed heavy discrimination against Moslems, even atrocities, by Congress bureaucracies under the Act of 1935. The League began violent agitation for a separate Moslem state, Pakistan, taking over Moslem-majority provinces...