Preface; Preface to the paperback edition; Introduction; 1. Jinnah between the wars; 2. Jinnah and the League's search for survival; 3. Jinnah and the Muslim-majority provinces; 4. Centre and province: Simla and the elections of 1945–46; 5. Jinnah's 'Pakistan' and the Cabinet Mission plan; 6. The interim government: Jinnah in retreat; 7. The end game: Mountbatten and partition.
'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of … the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review
'Jalal's monograph is an important contribution which no student of
modern South Asia can ignore. The central theme is original,
provocative, stimulating and in places quite exhilarating …' The
Times Higher Education Supplement
'The strength of Jalal's work is her forthright repudiation of the
historicist assumption that because an independent Pakistan came
into existence such a state was intended by Jinnah as he campaigned
for 'Pakistan' from 1940–1947.' The American Historical Review
'Ayesha Jalal's is a well researched, well written and more or less
dispassionate study of the factors leading to the creation of
Pakistan - indeed India's Partition.' The Economic Times (Bombay)
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