ABSTRACT
In March 1927, Jinnah made a brilliant move which raised his stock overnight, not only in his own community but in the country. The Hindu Mahasabha welcomed joint electorates. The Hindu Mahasabha was the first to strike a discordant note, but a graver threat to Jinnah’s scheme soon came from his own camp. The year 1927 was a momentous one for Jinnah, a year of solid achievement. With his proposals for a Hindu-Muslim accord, he had bounced back on to the centre-stage of Indian politics in the role of a ‘Muslim Gokhale’ His task was cut out for him — to keep up the pressure on the government through the boycott of the Simon Commission and to frame and formally present a joint Hindu-Muslim scheme for reforms to the British Government Little did he know that all his calculations were about to be upset by unexpected turns and twists of national politics.
