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Jinnah

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Jin·nah  (jn), Mohammed Ali 1876-1948.
Founder and first governor-general (1947-1948) of Pakistan. When India's independence from Britain was imminent, he feared the Muslim minority would be oppressed by the Hindus and insisted on a Muslim homeland, founded in 1947 as Pakistan.
Jinnah [ˈdʒɪnə]
n
(Biographies / Jinnah, Mohammed Ali (1876-1948) M, Pakistaninational of birth: Indian, POLITICS: statesman) Mohammed Ali 1876-1948, Indian Muslim statesman. He campaigned for the partition of India into separate Hindu and Muslim states, becoming first governor general of Pakistan (1947-48)
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Noun1.Jinnah - Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah


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The unpopular Dogra kingship of Maharajah Hari Singh set the stage for organized opposition when he took the throne in 1925, so local opposition leaders were courted by Nehru (a Kashmiri, though from Allahabad) and the Congress, and by Jinnah and the Muslim League.
The shadows of Kashmir and bombs in the Pakistan-India conflict by Anderson, Robert S. / Pacific Affairs
In fact, the greatest leaders of Indian independence--Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru (India's first Prime Minister) and Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan's first Governor General)--were all trained as lawyers in London.
1947: the end of the Raj: thirty years of nonviolent protests led by ... by Edidin, Peter / New York Times Upfront
He describes how Pakistani leaders going back to the nation's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, have struggled to build a national identity and have usually settled on only one unifying principle, Islam.
Our man in Pakistan: is Musharraf really doing everything he can to ... by Hirsh, Michael / Washington Monthly
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