Life history of muhammad ali jinnah

Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the first governor general of Pakistan. His great achievement was the organizing of Indian Moslems to demand a separate state, which culminated in the creation of Pakistan, the world's largest Islamic state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born in Karachi, probably on Dec. His family were merchants and members of the Khoja sect of Moslems.

He went to England in to study law, and after his return in he practiced in Bombay. He joined the Indian National Congress , giving his support to the moderate faction led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale , whom he greatly admired. Jinnah was also a member of the Moslem League, and he worked for greater Hindu-Moslem unity.

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He broke with the Congress in with the advent to leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, whose methods he deplored as unconstitutional and as based on an appeal to the mob. Jinnah's attempts to work with the Moslem League were so frustrating, however, that he concluded its leaders were either "flunkeys of the British or camp followers of the Congress" and went to England in to take up a law practice there.

In Jinnah was persuaded to return to India by the changes brought about in the political situation by the proposals for the new constitution, which resulted in the India Act of Convinced that Moslems would become second-rate citizens in a political society dominated by the votes of the Hindu majority, he succeeded in revitalizing the Moslem League as an effective political organization after the elections in , in which the Indian National Congress had won large majorities.