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 The Punjab Story 1940-1947: The Muslim League and the Unionists: Towards Partition and Pakistan
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Editor: Dr. Waheed Ahmad (Ph.D. Cantab.) | ISBN: 978-969-9411-00-7 | Format: Hardcover | Pages: 555 | Weight: 2.50 lbs | Pub. Date: 2009 | Publisher: National Documentation Wing Cabinet Division, Islamabad
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The principal correspondent in The Punjab Story, are, among others, Lady Noon and Firoz Khan Noon, Mrs. Rallia Ram, Shaukat Hyat Khan, Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Begum Shah Nawaz and Rafi Butt, Malik Barkat Ali and Mian Mumtaz Daultana. The matters discussed are the Jinnah Gandhi Bombay talks, the Cabinet Mission recommendations, formation of the Interim Government, killing of Bihar Muslims, Muslim League propaganda work abroad and the correspondents’ worry about Jinnah’s failing health, besides the important issue of the general elections of 1945-46 and the pressure on voters of the Punjab Unionist government against the League.
Elections having concluded, the Muslim League won overwhelmingly all over India, including Punjab where it captured 79 out of 86 Muslim seats in the House of 175 securing 65.3%of Muslim votes, as against a mere . 44% for the Congress. This victory, however, did not give the League the required magic legislative number to enable it to form government independently. Instead, the mongrel Tiwana combination was resurrected through the machination of the Congress President, Abul Kalam Azad. In consequence, the Leaguers protested. Demonstrated and courted arrest. Yet the Tiwana government lived limpingly until panicked Tiwana returned to Lahore from Delhi post haste, and resigned on 2 March 1947 bringing down the ramshackle Unionist-Akali-Congress coalition. In the aftermath, the ex-coalition partners, Congressmen and Sikhs, threatened violence in the event of a Muslim League-led government being installed. They preferred the Section 93 regime of the Government of India Act, 1935, which lasted until Partition in August 1947.
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