JINNAH & GANDHI

Comparing Gandhi and Jinnah is an extremely complex exercise but important for they were, or rather became, the two foci of the freedom of movement. Jinnah was a self made person. A self made person in the sense, he himself was solely responsible for his incredible political career where as Gandhi was born in a prominent family with a political background. His father was a diwan( prime minister). No such advantage of birth gave Jinnah a leg-up, it was entirely through his endeavours. 

"JINNAH IS AN AMBASSADOR OF HINDU-MUSLIM UNITY." -GOPAL KRISHNA GOKHALE

Gandhi was a master practitioner of the politics of protest. He did not do this by changing his nature but by changing the very nature of politics in India. Gandhi took politics out of the spacious halls to the soil of India. Hector Bolitho in his book "In Quest of Jinnah" writes:' Jinnah was a source of power...Gandhi an instrument of it....' Gandhi was inspired of Tolstoy ( a russian novelist) and Jinnah recognised the political impress of Dadabhai Naoraji(the first asian to be the british MP) and Gokhale(mentor to both Gandhi and Jinnah).

When Gandhi attended the Gurjar Sabha (council) his words to Jinnah were:'glad to find a Muslim not only belonging to his own region's sabha, but chairing it.' Yes, Jinnah was chairing that event. Gandhi got a very warm welcome by Jinnah who wanted to enlist his services for the Hindu-Muslim unity. Jinnah in his presidential address welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Gandhi. He impressed upon Gandhi that the greatest problem was ' to bring about unanimity and co-operation between the two communities (Muslims and Hindus) so that the demands of India (from Imperial Britain) may be made absolutely unanimously. Jinnah praised Gandhi a lot and this was greatly applauded by the large Hindu audience. However Gandhi's response was not a very good one. He said that he would study all the Indian questions from his point of view and on top of that he thanked Jinnah for presiding over a 'Hindu gathering.' This was an ungracious and discouraging response to Jinnah's warm welcome and intentions which was immensely pure and peaceful and this had a dampening effect....

We can clearly comprehend that Jinnah was the voice of India and Gandhi started off with the Hindus who were in majority.
Gandhi's leadership at this time had almost an entirely religiously provincial character and Jinnah on the other hand was then doubtless imbued by a non-sectarian, nationalistic zeal. 

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