num_pages: 310
description: In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.
language: English
title: The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
titlecomplete: The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
genres: Political Science, Politics, Historical, Biography, Islam, Pakistan, India, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 365
series: Cambridge South Asian Studies
publisher: Cambridge University Press