This volume seeks to analyse the evolution of Muslim nationalismfrom 1877 to
1937. This exercise has resulted in highlightingcertain trends which have been
so far either ignored orunderplayed, at any rate in India. It, for instance,
shows that twonation theory was an old as the movement for Muslim awakening
andsolidarity and almost all its leaders firmly believed in it.Similarly the
idea of Pakistan, instead of being born in 1933 withRehmat Alis forceful
espousal of it, is shown to be steadilycirculating, particularly in the Punjab,
since mid- 1920s. Again,contrary to what has been generally imagined so far,
Jinnah as wellas Iqbal had become converts to that idea, as