Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One
1. Formation of the Party, 1906-1910
2. Organizational Structure and its Working, 1906-1935
3. Recognition by Performance, 1906-1921
4. Fumbling in the Dark, 1922-1934
Part Two
5. Revival of the Party, 1935-1937
6. Search for a Goal, 1940
7. Reorganization and Mobilization, 1937-1947
8. Muslim League Branches, 1937-1947
Part Three
9. Reluctance at Recognition, 1940-1945
10. The General Elections, 1945-1946
11. Bypassing the Pakistan Demand, 1945-1946
12. Plans, Partition, and Pakistan, 1947
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

M. Rafique Afzal was research supervisor at the Research Society of Pakistan, Lahore; senior/principal research fellow at the National Institute (formerly Commission) of Historical and Cultural Research, Islamabad; and Professor of History at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He was visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York; University of Massachusetts at Amherst; and University of Jordan, Amman. He has published works on Muslim leaders of the Freedom
Movement including Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Lahore: Research Society of Pakistan, 1965 and 1975), Liaquat Ali Khan (Research Society of Pakistan, 1967), Allama Mohammad Iqbal (Research
Society of Pakistan, 1969); and Malik Barkat Ali (Research Society of Pakistan, 1969).