- the islamic prism 287
- Presidential address of M. A. Jinnah at the twenty- sixth Muslim League ses-
sion in Patna, December 1938. Ibid., 2:307. - For the text of the resolution adopted at the Patna session of the Muslim
League in December 1937, see ibid., 2:315– 316. - For a brief summary of the deliberations, see ibid., 2:316– 318.
- Ibid. Emphasis added.
- For the text of the resolution adopted at the Lahore session of the League in
March 1940, see ibid., 2:346. - For the text of the resolution adopted at the Delhi session of the Muslim
League in April 1943, see ibid., 2:439– 440. Jinnah himself proposed this
resolution, which was adopted unanimously. - For the text of the resolution adopted at the Karachi session of the League in
December 1943, see ibid., 2:489– 490. - For the text of the resolution adopted at the Delhi council meeting on April
10, 1946, see ibid., 2:525. - For the text of the resolution adopted at the Karachi council meeting in De-
cember 1947, see ibid., 2:574– 575. - Shaikh, “Muslims and Po liti cal Repre sen ta tion in Colonial India.”
- He had earlier served as president in 1923 and remains the youn gest person
to hold the leadership of the party. - Heptulla, Indo- West Asian Relations, 152.
- Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 1:232– 233; Mudiam, India and the Middle East, 144.
- While Muslim- majority areas of Bengal province became East Pakistan,
the Muslim majority areas in the west became West Pakistan. This geo-
graphic anomaly of a large Indian territory between East and West Pakistan
continued until 1971, when East Pakistan became the in de pen dent state
Bangladesh. - Burke, Pakistan’s Foreign Policy, 66.
- Stein, The Balfour Declaration, 496– 497.
- Later that year, Shaukat Ali also met Stein and Sokolov in London.
- There are suggestions that Shaukat Ali’s “attitude towards Zionism seems
to have been rather tolerant, in so far as he openly suppor ted a solution with-
out violent means for the outstanding questions in Palestine.” Kupfer-
schmidt, “The General Muslim Congress of 1931 in Jerusalem,” 131. - Note of the interview by Selig Brodetsky (October 15, 1931), CZA, S25/3535.
- Panikkar, In Two Chinas, 12.
- Bergmann and Shimoni, “Report on the Inter- Asian Conference.”
- For a copy of the memorandum, see CZA, S25/9029. In the following quo-
tations from the memorandum, the emphasis is in the original. - Interestingly, this “follow the lead” became the Indian position at the fi rst
special session of the UN General Assembly that met shortly after Panik-
kar’s memorandum. - Panikkar, In Two Chinas, 12.
- This, however, did not prevent Panikkar from meeting and interacting with
Israeli offi cials. He lamented India’s belated recognition and had a day- long
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