Comparison of Jinnah's Fourteen Points & Nehru Report

1. Minority Question
The reccomendations in the Nehru Report were in the benefit og the Hindu majority. It rejected weightage for minorities because it thought that minority question is a British creation and would disappear as India attains the dominion status. While Jinnah viewed that minority question is real and based upon fundamental historical and political differences.

2. Separate Electorates
Nehru Report rejected the Muslim demand for separate electorates on the ground that all Indians belog to one nation. Whereas, Jinnah favored Muslim separate electorate because Muslims regarded themselves a separate nation.

3. Representation in the Central Legislature
Nehru Report reserved 1/4th seats for Muslims at the center and in provinces in which they are in minority so that minority must remain minority. Mr. Jinnah, on the other hand, favored that in the Central legislature Muslim representation shall not be less than 1/3rd.

4. Autonomy
Nehru favored that autonomy should remain at the center unlike Mr. Jinnah who proposed that uniform measure of autonomy shall be granted to all provinces.

5. Majority Government
Nehru demanded full independence and majority rule and refused to discuss the communal issue. While Mr. Jinnah refused to accept the majority government at the center.

These differences were really very wide and unbridgeable. The Nehru report and Quaid-e-Azam's Fourteen Points were just like a chasm political field which could not be filled. The reasonable and moderate demands contained in the Fourteen Points were rejected by the leaders of Congress. This further widened the gulf between the two communities. The political attitude of Muslims of India was shaped on the basis of Fourteen Points after 1930. As these points also contained the germs of the idea of Pakistan, they postulated the Muslims as a separate identity.

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floydian

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