ABSTRACT
Jinnah heaved a sigh of relief when Gandhi suspended satyagraha on 18th April. One can well imagine Jinnah and Ruttie roaring with laughter at these homilies by Gandhi when momentous issues like the future of the Indian constitution were on the parliamentary anvil. It was difficult for them, as indeed it was for most other Indian politicians, to grasp the hidden message in Gandhi’s emphasis on the use of the spinning wheel and the mother tongue as instruments of identification of the political elite with the teeming millions of India. In 1910, and again in 1916, Jinnah had been elected by a Muslim constituency to the Imperial Legislative Council; he went back to it in 1920 for election to the new central legislature. When the All India Congress Committee met at Bombay early in October, Jinnah and V.J. Patel clashed with Gandhi.
