Originally posted by K.Resurrected.
I admit my ignorance on Gandhi's ignorance on Jinnah's "15 year old two nation theory". If you could provide reliable links on this matter, I could bring myself up to speed.
Actually, you maybe right in your ignorance. The two-nation theory was not Jinnah's and he did not lean towards it until 1936. Jinnah along with Maulana Azad was actually strongly for United India and Hindu-Muslim unity. Even when he left Congress of Muslim League he was part of the pro-Congress faction of the Muslim league.
There were other political occurrences within INC that pushed Jinnah towards the two nation theory and culminated in the final Indo-Pak schism. Part of it was due to Gandhi's ineffectiveness as a political mediator and negotiator, he probably suffered what I would call "nice-guy syndrome" and did not get some of the political occurrences around him. Most of it was due to political ambitiousness of men like Jinnah, Nehru and Ambedkar who though more of themselves and their constituencies rather than India as whole. [I bring Ambedkar because of Pune pact and its repercussions for INC and Jinnah]
Sarojini Naidu wrote a biography on Jinnah that in some ways shows some of his changing political views in context. Not just Gandhi, but many people were thrown for a loop that a promising, progressive leader like Jinnah ended up delivering the final blows in splitting the nation.
