From Martial Law to Martial Law

Syde Nur Ahemd, Craig Baxter is professor emeritus of politics and history at Juanita College.

Preface -- Martial Law and Civil Disobedience -- An Eyewitness Account of the 1919 Martial Law -- Election Scenes in Punjabi Villages -- 33 -- The New Recruit in Mr. Jinnah's Party -- The 21 Day Fast of Mahatma Gandhi -- Dyarchy and the Unionist Party -- The First All-Parties Conference -- 1926: A Dramatic Session of the Central Assembly -- The Muslim Political Camp United Again -- The Tumultuous Tour of the Simon Commission -- Bhagat Singh's Bomb and Ilmuddin's Dagger -- 86 -- The Allahabad Address of Allama Iqbal -- 98 -- Disarray in the Muslim League Organization -- 106 -- 125 -- Unionist Party Intrigues Against Fazl-I-Husain -- The Last Meeting between Jinnah and Sir Fazl-I-Husain -- 151 -- The Political Struggle during the War and the Cripps Proposals -- Glimpses of Provincial Politics -- New Elections Vindicate the Claim of the Qaid-I-Azam -- Partition -- The Decision for Direct Action -- Political Trickery on the Interim Government -- Trouble on the Provincial Fronts -- The Arrival of Mountbatten and the Acceptance of the Pakistan Plan -- Problems of Partition -- 251 -- The Two-Man Boundary Force -- The Accession of Kashmir -- Parliamentary Democracy Tried -- Glimpses of 1948: Disorder in the Provinces -- The Last Ziarat at Ziarat -- 307 -- Prime Minister Nazimuddin and Governor General Ghulam Muhammad - the Beginning of Palace Intrigues -- 339 -- The Nehru-Bogra Compromise -- The New Constituent Assembly and Palace Collusions -- The Republican Party -- New Crises in East Pakistan -- The Annual Bargaining Sessions of the West Pakistan Assembly -- Suhrawardy Resigns and Chundrigar Comes and Goes -- Struggle for Power in East Pakistan -- The Last President of the Muslim League -- Noon's Last Try -- Military Revolution -- Appendices