On Jinnah, The Secularist
If you take Jinnah's early political career, when he came back from London in 1897 after finishing law, he was truly secular. He fought a case for Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He called Gopal Krishna Gokhale his guru and once famously said he would like to be a 'Muslim Gokhale.'
In 1906, when the Muslim League was floated, its leader, the Aga Khan, asked him to join the party. Jinnah's answer was -- 'I am an Indian first and then a Muslim.'
In 1913, when he was invited once again to join the Muslim League he did two things -- one, he told the party to include a clause in its constitution stating that if the nation's interest clashed with the community's interest, the party would pursue the former. Two, he converted from the Ismaili Khoja sect to the Isna'asheri sect to be free of the Aga Khan's religious influence.
Photograph: Courtesy Dinkar Joshi's book Pratinayak
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