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  • Title: Economic Ideas of the Quaid-I-Azam.
  • Author : Pakistan Development Review
  • Release Date : January 22, 2001
  • Genre: Economics,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 265 KB

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The present paper consists of four parts. First, it is argued why the Quaid-iAzam, Mohammad All Jinnah (1876-1948), concentrated for the most part on political issues and political freedom, why he went in for Islam as the cultural metaphor in arguing the case for Pakistan, and why he opted for couching his marathon (193747) discourse in Islamic terms. Second, the legacy in terms of the primacy of economic factors in propelling a colonised people towards political emancipation Jinnah had received from the historic realm and his own background-in particular, the economic bias in his family background, in Bombay's mercantile culture which was almost at the centre of the most formative influences in his early life, and in the pronouncements of, and proposals mooted by, Muslim leaders from Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) down to Iqbal (1877-1938) on the one hand, and by the Mohammedan Educational Conference (f.1836) to the All India Muslim League (1906-47), on the other. These proposals were essentially aimed at exhorting the intelligentsia to work for the social, economic and political uplift of the masses. Third, the stress on economic emancipation and the rise of Muslim economic nationalism in the 1940s, in the wake of the Lahore Resolution (1940), has been discussed and delineated briefly. Fourth, an attempt has been made to set forth, as systematically as is possible for a student of another discipline, Jinnah's economic ideas, extracted from his multitudinous pronouncements, which could serve as guidelines for the economic reconstruction of Pakistan, wherever feasible. Since the avalanche of political developments kept Jinnah so preoccupied during (1940-47), consuming all his waking hours, he had little time to give thought to the economic policies of the state he had demanded. (1) Nor did he have the expertise to give an "eco-vision" or a structured and systematically worked out economic "system". Hence, except for some general remarks here and there, he had said precious little about the economic system that would be enforced in Pakistan. But some idea can be had in the speeches of Z. H. Lari (1915-73), Tamizuddin Khan (d. 1963), and Hamid Nizami (d.1962) who moved or supported the resolution on the Planning Committee at the Karachi (1943) League, and in the Punjab Provincial League Manifesto (1944). For one thing, Jinnah was presiding at Karachi, for another, he did not contradict them in his concluding remarks. The manifesto, drawn up by the Left-oriented Danial Latifi, was, of course, an official document, but it is improbable that Jinnah's concurrence should have been sought before its issuance. Yet, it would not have been drawn up the way it was, without its core principles being generally reflective of Jinnah's thinking in the matter. Even so, it needs to be pointed out that Lari, Tamizuddin and Latifi were rather heavily influenced by the leftist discourse and rhetoric prevalent since Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1919)'s and Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945)'s ascendancy in Congress's politics, but Jinnah, an early believer in the laissez faire credo, in competition and survival of the fittest, was obviously not. Yet he didn't disown or contradict Lari, Tamizuddin and Latifi for the simple reason that he knew, more than any one else, that as leader of a nationalist coalition his supreme job at the moment was to solidity the consensus all the more, by further cementing, rather than disrupting, the coalition. Till the arrival of Pakistan and a fair weather, settlement of the doctrinaire question could as well be put on the back burner, and the controversial and divisive issues postponed. Even so, the general principles set forth in the Lari et al. speeches and the manifesto, which may be taken as tentative guidelines to the Muslim League's, if not Jinnah's, thinking on the economic reconstruction of Pakistan, merit a mention in any discussion on Jinnah's economic ideas.


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