Story of Pakistan

                   This is the India in 1928

Few special guests sent by the British Crown are arriving in the sub-continent.

The news of arrival of these guests has spread all over India like wildfire.

The grief an

d anger among Public is at its peak

The billions of people that inhabit the sub-continent are openly protesting

against the meetings of the viceroy with these guests.

The Indian who is not even aware of one single word of English,

They have also memorized an English slogan.

An important meeting of the Kite runners is under progress in one corner of the city.

These Kite runners are doing calculations based on the principles of physics.

Who were these guests sent by the British Crown?

How are these kite runners related to these special guests?

And why is the whole India publicly protesting against these guests?

You will get to know all this in today’s episode of “Story of Pakistan”

Along with this, you will get to know how despite being careworn,

Quaid-e-Azam fought for the case of Muslims with Gallantry.

The Simon commission was sent to the sub-continent in order to present a formula for the new reforms

to Indian leadership to fulfill the promise made in 1919

of introducing the new reforms in the subcontinent after 10 years.

But when Simon Commission came here, the Indians not only opposed it but also showed resentment towards it,

including Jinnah and the Congress.

And there were many protests in India against the Simon Commission.

Wherever Simon commission went, they were welcomed with black flags,

shoes and the slogan of “Simon Go Back”

which was even memorized by people who knew nothing about English.

Lord Berkinhead, for the first time, wrote in a paper for us,

“you, the black Indians, are not eligible to solve your own political crisis.

We, with devotion, when struggle for your survival, for your reforms,

and you are creating troubles in way of our constitutional efforts.

If you think you are competent, go and bring your proposals.”

It is very important to understand the role on media in that era.

The credibility of journalism in that era can be understood by this incident.

If we talk about media in that era, the Muslim press was extremely vocal, so was Mualana Ab-ul-Kalam Azaad ‘s

Mualana Muhammad Ali Johar’s Comrade and Hamdard’s newspapers.

Zamindar… All these Newspapers played a very important role.

It was said about Mualana Zafar Ali Khan’s Zamindar, that if an incident happened at night,

it would be published in Zamindar newspaper in a form of prose poetry.

People were so much interested in Zamindar that they would buy the newspaper for 6 paisas and pay 6 paisas

to someone else so that they would read it for them if they could not read it themselves.

The Khilafat Movement in that era was so impactful that after Ali Brothers’ were arrested,

their mother, Be-Amma came in to the field.

Be Amma said “Son, give Muhammad Ali’s life to the Khilafat movement”

It was a slogan that was echoing in the whole India.

When it comes to Be-Amma, she was someone who made her sons prominent in the movement,

unlike other women at that time who became prominent because of their husbands, fathers or brothers.

Jinnah, who had always thought that congress was loyal to Muslims,

lost all his hope after the Motilal Nehru incident.

Every article of the Lucknow pact signed in 1916, which gave one fourth representation to the Muslims,

instead of one third was denied one by one, But why?

Because just like other minorities, Muslims were also a mere minority.

Motilal Nehru said “We are responsible to give suggestion to the British government because we are the majority.”

Jinnah was highly influenced by western liberal system.

He was also influenced by western political system,

which is why he considered territorial nationalism to be an ultimate solution.

But Congress’s behavior during Nehru report and All parties Conferences disappointed Jinnah greatly.

He then realized that it might not be possible to achieve his dream of territorial nationalism.

Jinnah was a man of a very strong morale. He was seen crying only twice during his entire life.

He once cried in 1928, when he said that “it is the partition of our ways,

now Hindu-Muslim Unity is out of question.”

He cried for the second time in 1929, when Jinnah was attending a session

in Lucknow when Rattan Bai died suddenly.

Jinnah wept with tears as he could not listen to what Rattan wanted to say for the last time.

So this man with a strong morale became extremely disappointed

at the mention of “Partition of ways” after the Nehru Report.

With time, with the help of different protests, Non-muslims’ attitudes towards Muslims

and through Khilafat Movement, they realized that it is not right for us to stay together for political purposes.

We are a separate nation.

You would notice from the traditions of that era that if a Muslim drank water from a glass in a Hindu’s house,

that glass would be thrown away as it was considered detestable.

The whole subcontinent was publically protesting against the Simon Commission.

Now you must have realized that “Simon Go Back”

was a slogan that had become very popular and common in India.

The meeting of Simon Commission was called in a very deserted area where the public could not protest

and the security forces surrounded the whole area.

So the protesters called in for expert Kite runners who had made calculations such that

when they cut the strings of the kite, it would fall to the grounds of the meeting

and one of those kites they had written the slogan of “Simon Go Back” to show their opposition.

Jinnah was in himself a Chrisma.

It was very clear in Annie Besant’s Chrisma and Chrismatic leader that Jinnah was not a politician

who may adopt exploitive situations. He was like a crystal personality.

He knew very well the extent of suffering that Muslims will have to go through because of all this.

But Jinnah knew the real importance of his purpose.

This was our Jinnah… A man of Principles, A man of Vision and a man with a beautiful heart.

What happened in Allahabad that completely changed the history?

Who scolded the son of Allama Iqbal? And why did the Muslim league fail the elections of 1936?

You will get to know this in the next episode of "Story of Pakistan".