Letter from Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (New Delhi, 9 February 1946)

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On 9 February 1946, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League, sends a letter to Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, special envoy of the British government to India, in which he asks the British to make a clear declaration of their policy in India. Muhammad Ali Jinnah does not see any reason for establishing a provisional government and rejects any idea of an independent unitary state, instead calling for the creation of a Muslim state, Pakistan.

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Source: JINNAH, Muhammad Ali. [Letter from Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (New Delhi, 9 February 1946]. 09-02-1946. Kept in: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). CAB - Records of the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office: Private Collections of Ministers' and Officials' Papers Sir Stafford Cripps. Personal correspondence: Mohammad Ali Jinnah, President All-India Congress Committee. 01/02/1946-31/10/1948, CAB 127/136.

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