Mohamed Ali Jinnah was riding high (literally on a dais mounted on a Dodge truck) when his Moslem League convened in Delhi in April. Never before in the League's hitherto pedestrian history had his followers turned out in such numbers.
There was a parade two miles long. Showers of rose petals fell on Jinnah's mat of grey hair. Police guards on the roof tops saw to it that nothing heavier than rose petals was dropped.
For three hours, under a blistering sun, Jinnah, emerging as India's No. 1 political figure during the suppression...
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