A Leadership Odyssey: Muslim Separatism And The Achievement Of The Separate State Of Pakistan / By: Sikandar Hayat / Paperback / Oxford University Press Pakistan
ISBN: 9789697340132 / 978-9697340132
- Publisher : Oxford University Press (February 28, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 340 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9697340137
- ISBN-13 : 978-9697340132
"This book offers a unique historiography of the phenomenon of Muslim separatism as it affected and shaped modern South Asia. It describes the journeys of six prominent Muslim leaders of British India: Syed Ahmad Khan, who laid the foundation of the Muslim separatist political movement; Sultan Muhammad Aga Khan III, Syed Ameer Ali, and Maulana Mohamed Ali, who strengthened and developed it in their own ways; Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who took its cause further and formulated the idea of a separate state; and, of course, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who, after making the demand for a separate state, transformed it into the nationalist Pakistan Movement and led it successfully to achieve the separate state of Pakistan. Previous studies have not explained Muslim separatism in such a leadership framework. In this book, based on an ‘instrumentalist’ approach, Muslim separatism has been analysed through the contributions of a host of Muslim leaders, one after the other, helping and reinforcing each other, and thus leading all the way to the achievement of Pakistan."
