Muhammad Ali Jinnah: A Transformation from an Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity to a Stubborn Communalist for Creating Pakistan Through the Tragic Partition of The Subcontinent | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is considered to be the most divisive character and figure for the tragedy of the sub-continental history. He is still considered by many as the villain who was solely responsible for the creation of Pakistan. It's a tragedy for the sub-continental history that a very successful barrister who did not have any kind of religious biasness or religious bigotry of any kind in his earlier and almost entire life eventually became one of the topmost stubborn communalist for the creation of a homeland for the sub-continental Muslims by vivisection of the great land i.e. undivided India. Still his activities and life history is an enigma to different scholars of history. His legacy is a mixed legacy of trust, inter-community dreams, unity as well as mistrust, betrayal and antagonism among two different substantially existent sister communities in the Indian subcontinent who lived together side by side for centuries under different compulsions under the same sky. The vague and uncertain times of the last and ending days of the British rule in India, the clamour for power for the two major communities and their conflicting and sometimes very opposing interests, their mistrust, disbelief, low confidence in each other resulted in the tragic partition. The person from whom high expectations were made from both the communities eventually became a person meant and made for a particular community on the lines of extreme communalism and eventually the course of the sub-continental history had fallen in a tragic quagmire of mistrust, antagonism among two major communities. The legacy of that fateful tragedy called Indian Partition still haunts the sub-continent. His persona thought of a permanent solution for both the communities but eventually the same tragic history of partition never could fulfill the overall general aspirations and good healthy political or interfaith environments of trust in the subcontinent. This paper tries to get into the persona of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan.