Word: qaid
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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After eleven days of silence, Gandhi wrote to the Viceroy asking new 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...