In continuation of blog series under title as referred above, I have written its part nine for the interest of readers.By April, 1940, the Second World War entered in a new phase. With the fall of French, England stood alone to carry on the fight and the War was reaching the border of India very rapidly. The sudden disclosure of British weakness produced shock and surprise. The British government was confronted with a number of problems and it wanted to win the cooperation of the Indian people and to cope with the war requirement.Taking advantage of unfavourable conditions for British, Gandhi now began to press for immediate withdrawal of the British from India and the transfer of power to the Congress with prior settlement with any other party. After passing the resolution of 'Quit India' riots took place, public property was looted and burnt and several public servants were indiscriminately wounded and murdered.Most of Congress leaders including Gandhi were arrested and the Congress was declared unlawful body. Many Muslim men stood for cooperating with the Congress. But, the Quid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah who recognized Gandhi inside out, foresaw what would be results behind the support to Gandhi and the Congress. To Gandhi's slogan "Quit India", Jinnah replied, 'Divide and Quit'.In these circumstances, a need was felt for Jinnah,Gandhi talk, for Chakravarti Rajagopalacharia prepared a formula in 1943 popularly known C. R. Formula. In these process, the Punjab and Bengal provinces with a Muslim majority, would be partitioned. Mr. Jinnah did not agree. The talks broke down. Explaining the reason for the failure of Jinnah-Gandhi talks, Louise Fischer wrote, "the wall between Gandhi and Jinnah was the two-nation theory.( To be continued......)
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  • Salam my sister, I, by grace of Allah the Almighty, fine and hope you are fine too.

    Now I wanna kill your curiosity by posting the last episode of this blog series on history very soonest. Writing history is not an easy task. Thank you my sister for the encouragement.
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    Waiting for the next part.

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  • Mujhee difaa karna kilyei shukriya. phir bee, admi, admi abne muluk se hain. Going back to your beautiful and historical blog, history makes men and women. Their memories can be engraved on its page for a long time. Brilliant historical narration, Mr. Saeed.

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