ABSTRACT
On 2 February 1931, soon after the conclusion of the First Round Table Conference, Jinnah told a correspondent of Reuters news agency that he intended to ‘stay on in England indefinitely to practise in the Privy Council and to enter Parliament’ because he believed that during the coming year India’s constitutional battle would be fought in London. What he could not admit in public was that it was the turns and twists of Muslim politics in his homeland which had driven him to self-exile in England. By the end of the Round Table Conference, Jinnah realized that his wings had been clipped by the emergence in strategic positions of powerful men in India and Britain who were hostile to him. Jinnah was able to secure chambers in the King’s Bench Walk for his legal practice. In India Jinnah had divided his time between law and politics.
