Mohd. Ali Jinnah played in the hands of British and driven a wedge between the unity of Hindus and Muslims
   15-May-2019
 
JKNow Team  

 
 
 
 
The intensity of the Indian Independence Movement increased in the year 1920 and the Indian National Congress was at the forefront. Even Mohd Ali Jinha was one of the top Congressmen. The 1857 revolt against British Company Raj depicted the oneness of Hindu and Indian Muslims and it became the cause of worry among Britishers.
 
 

 
 
 
So, thereafter, the divide and rule game plan was skillfully hatched and applied by the British. It was in 1930s that British could prompt the Muslim voice for the division of India (in the event of British retreat as and when it would be). The British used sweet traps to rope in the Princes too. Economic poverty, as well as the social civic diverse traditions amongst the Hindu, was used to further fragment the Hindu society.
 
 

 
 
 
But the Mughals [more identified with Jalalu din Akbar} had accepted Bharat as their own country and most of the Muslims were converted from Hindus having same language and traditions. Therefore, the Hindu-Muslim ties were strong like a rock and tearing it apart was not a cakewalk. Similarly, leaders like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar proved tough for the British to succeed in their evil designs. But still, some Muslim leaders fell prey to the British designs and started to vouch for a separate country exclusively for Muslims (Islamic Pakistan).
 
 

 
 
 
No doubt at that time there was a very large chunk of Muslims in India who did not want partition or a separate Islamic country. It was also quite evident that as and when Islamic Pakistan would be created; there will still be a very large number of Muslims, who would prefer to stay back in India.
 
 

 
 
 
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was a Kashmiri Muslim (later became the leader of Jammu Kashmir Muslim Conference ) who was working in 1930s for the welfare of Kashmiri Muslims during the rule of Maharaja Hari Singh. On all India basis, it was the Muslim league that was activated by Mohd. Ali Jinnah after he returned from exile (from Britain). Jinnah was a Congressman earlier and talked of Pakistan for Muslims. The British also succeeded in raising doubts in his mind for the socio-economic security of Muslims in Hindu majority India. Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah preferred to stay away from Jinnah because of his policies. He later came closer to Jawahar Lal Nehru and became Nehru’s dearest “friend”. In a calculated move, he opened the doors of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference to non-Muslims as well. In 1939 Muslim Conference was renamed as National Conference.