He asserted that the Muslims were 'a nation by any definition'. Though, most of his audience of over 100,000 did not know English, he held their attention and visibly touched their emotion. Jinnah had expounded the rationale of the resolution in his presidential address that lasted for hundred minutes and frequently punctuated by thunderous applause. It was a huge gathering of the Leaguers, the Khaksars and the Muslims at Minto Park (now Iqbal Park). Jinnah decided to address a public gathering on the opening day. It is obvious that by calling the Hindus and the Muslims two nations, Jinnah had reached the threshold of partition, but he was still reluctant to abandon his lifelong dream that Hindus and the Muslims would come to an understanding and in unison make 'their common motherland ' one of 'the great countries of the world'. He maintained: 'Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India.' He called the Hindus and the Muslims 'two different nations' with different religions and different social codes. Time and Tide of London published an article by Jinnah on Januunder the caption 'The Constitutional Future of India'. The British had been compelled to recognize the Muslim League as the sole representative of the Muslims of India by 1940 and Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah as its undisputed leader. As for Gandhi, Nehru, Azad and the rest, they were advocates of a neighbor state and would be dealt with according to classic canons of diplomacy.

All that remained was for his party first, then his inchoate nation, and then his British allies to agree to the formula he had resolved upon.

The ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity had totally transformed himself into Pakistan's great leader. The rest of the world would take at least seven years to appreciate that he literally meant every word that he had uttered that important afternoon in March. Those who understood him enough know that once his mind was made up he never reverted to any earlier position realized how momentous a pronouncement their Quaid-i-Azam had just made. Jinnah's Lahore address lowered the final curtain on any prospects for a single united independent India.

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