(2). This was a major step for Muslims, because they were being granted privileges within the government, which to once they didnt play a major role in. Jinnah was against the tactics that were being used by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi brought violence into the issue of freedom from British rule and Jinnah was strongly opposed to that. He did not want to be apart of Gandhis methods of Satyagrah (civil disobedience) and the triple boycott of government-aided schools and colleges, courts and councils and British textiles (2). When Gandhi was elected as President of the Home Rule League, Jinnah resigned and stated, Your extreme program has for the moment struck the imagination mostly of the inexperienced youth and ignorant and the illiterate. All this means disorganization and chaos (2). Even though Jinnah left the Congress he still continued to fight, non-violently, for peace between the Hindus and the Muslims. Jinnah then began to revive the Muslim League, which was now inactive and disorganized. He didnt give up and, he kept fighting for Muslim leaders and people to join the League and fight for their cause. With his determination, Jinnah managed to win the Muslim League about 108 seats out of a total of 485 Muslim seats in the legislature. After reviving the Muslims morale, Jinnah proclaimed a demand for Pakistan, he stated, We are a nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of values and proportion, legal laws and moral code, customs and calendar, history and tradition, aptitudes and ambitions; in short, we have our own distinctive outlook on life and of life. By all canons of international law, we are a nation (4). This demand had a major impact on Indian politics and it brought down the hope of Hindus of ever being the dominant religion among the Muslims.When the Muslim League had begun to rise, talks between Jinnah and G...
