Home›Sources›Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)SourcesAyesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)Cambridge University PressCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/jalal-the-sole-spokesman-jinnah-the-muslim-league-and-the-demand-for-pakistan.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/jalal-the-sole-spokesman-jinnah-the-muslim-league-and-the-demand-for-pakistanCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-ayesha-jalal-the-sole-spokesman-jinnah-t, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/jalal-the-sole-spokesman-jinnah-the-muslim-league-and-the-demand-for-pakistan}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe foundational revisionist history arguing that Muhammad Ali Jinnah's demand for Pakistan functioned as a strategic bargaining position for greater constitutional autonomy for India's Muslims within a federal structure, rather than as an inevitable drive toward a separate religious state, and that partition itself resulted from the failure of elite political bargaining among the Congress, the Muslim League and the British rather than from popular religious antagonism reaching its logical end.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (7 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedAyesha JalalPublisherWell-attestedCambridge University PressPublication YearWell-attested1985Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Jalal is a leading historian of Pakistan (Tufts University, MacArthur Fellow) and this book, her first, remains one of the two or three most influential works in partition historiography, having reshaped the field's reading of Jinnah and of partition's political causation since its 1985 publication.SourcesAyesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)tier 1Ayesha Jalal, Cambridge University Press, 1985Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested6ArticlesWas Partition a Religious War? Historians Still DisagreeSourcesAyesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)General References1ArticlesWas Partition a Religious War? Historians Still DisagreeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year