{"id":1733,"date":"2014-03-23T23:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2019-01-03T20:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:21:01","slug":"student-private-secretary-of-jinnah-khurshid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/editors-take\/student-private-secretary-of-jinnah-khurshid\/","title":{"rendered":"K. H. Khurshid: Student Private Secretary of Jinnah Khurshid"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>
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Remembering K. H. Khurshid<\/h1>\n

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It is unimaginable. It sounds like a fairy tale. Nevertheless, it is a true story; history had cast role for a young student leader from Srinagar in contributing his mite in \u2018altering the course of history, modifying the map of the world and creating a nation state.\u2019\u00a0 The twenty-year-old student leader who earned distinction of joining the team of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a\u00a0 man of \u2018sartorial elegance\u2019 and \u2018indomitable will\u2019 \u2013 who occupies a place of \u2018primacy\u2019 in South Asian history,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 was Khurshid Hassan\u2026remembered as K.H. Khurshid. \"jinnah-608\"<\/a>
\nIn 1942, a student organization, the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Students Federation was born in Srinagar to further the cause of the freedom.\u00a0 In a short span of time, it established its units in all colleges of both the provinces- Jammu and Kashmir. Ahmed-ullah Rani was elected as President and Khurshid Hassan as General Secretary of this organization. Our chronicles have recorded names of many members of this organization. Some years back, I had an opportunity of interacting with some members of this student organization.
\n\u2018In May 1944, when Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was in Srinagar besides addressing massive public meetings he also addressed members of the Muslim Student Federation. On this occasion, Khurshid Hassan presented a memorandum on behalf of the students of Jammu and Kashmir. However, it was not his first meeting with the Muslim League leader.\u00a0 Talking about his first meeting with M.A. Jinnah Khurshid writes in his book Memories of Jinnah, \u201cI met him for the first time on 19 November 1942, at Jullandhar, where Punjab Muslim Students Federation was holding its annual conference.\u2019 He along with another student leader Ghulam Rasool had been selected by the Union to represent it at Jullandhar. \u201cWhen I say I met Jinnah for the first time, I do not mean there was a meeting as such\u201d writes Khurshid, \u201cIt would be more appropriate to say I saw him and we shook hands. He just uttered one sentence\u2019 \u2018So this yours, as he handed me the Muslim League flag which had been awarded to our Union for unrolling the largest number of members.\u201d Second time, Khurshid saw\u00a0 Jinnah in Lahore where he had been sent college principal M.D. Taseer to take part in \u2018declamation\u2019 i.e. oratory contest. From that day, the young Kashmiri student followed activities of Quaid in press religiously as he writes, \u2018from that day he became firm believer in Jinnah\u2019.
\nIn 1944, Jinnah stayed for about two months in Srinagar. It was longest stay of any All India\u00a0\u00a0 leader in Srinagar. He met scores of delegations from all classes of society- leaders of political parties and students. Garden parities were organized and dinners hosted for him by rich and influential people. Khurshid writes, \u2018His secretary Lobo \u2013 a Christen from Goa introduced me to Jinnah not only as a student worker but also as correspondent of the orient press, the only Muslim news agency in India.\u2019 \"jinnah,<\/a>
\nKhurshid\u2019s book edited by Khalid Hassan and published posthumously by Sang-e- Meel publications; Lahore\u00a0\u00a0 gives many details about M.A. Jinnah\u2019s activities in Kashmir which none of his important biographers have done earlier. This book for the first time tells\u00a0\u00a0 us about\u00a0 Liaqute Ali Khan\u2019s visit to Srinagar when Jinnah was here. The author of the book met Liaqute Ali for the first time on the bund, when he was strolling with Quaid and Fatima Jinnah. The book provides an insight into the working of the Muslim Conference and the National Conference during stay of Jinnah in Srinagar that\u00a0\u00a0 had far-reaching impact on future developments in the state. Divided Kashmir leadership had pained Jinnah. He made a brief appeal to them for unity. It was on this occasion he \u2018made the much-to-be quoted statement, \u2018we have one God, one Quran, One Kaba, and one Prophet. Let us have one, organization, one platform, one flag and one leader\u2019.
\nThe book is an important addition to the history of sub-continent. Perhaps no other person other than could have had more intimate knowledge of the development during last phase of India\u2019s freedom as Khurshid had.\u00a0 He provides us \u2018a rare glimpse of aspects of the Quaid-e-Azam\u2019s character and personality.\u2019 Sharing his personal experiences, the author has demolished the image \u2018of the cold blooded schemer as projected by fictionalized film of Richard Attenborough\u2019s Gandhi and some Indian and European authors.\u2019
\nHe was considerate even to young Kashmir students and heard them patiently.\u00a0 Khurshid writes, \u2018He behaved towards me exquisitely. Later, as my visits frequented, he would often come to door himself to let me in.\u2019 One, is here reminded of Frank Morass\u2019s experience with Quaid-e-Azam, \u201c I had heard tales of his rudeness, but over fifteen years,\u00a0\u00a0 I was to know him\u2019 he was never anything but considerate, often kind.\u2019 He was incredibly straightforward, brutally frank and did not believe in honey-tongued diplomacy. He undoubtedly was a disciplinarian Khurshid writes, \u2018but his manner was paternal.\u2019 How much concerned he felt about Khurshid becomes evident from the notes of Hector Bolitho first biographer of Jinnah, edited by Sharif Mujahid and published by Oxford. Khurshid told him, \u2018I was staying with Jinnah in Cowasjee Jehangir\u2019s country house. Jinnah worried lest I was bored. He asked do you read Shakespeare. \u2018I confessed not since school.\u2019 He went into town and brought back a whole set of Shakespeare, Shelly and Keats for me to read.\u2019 (page 86)
\nThis Srinagar boy born in 1924, earned perhaps the best ever kudos from founder of Pakistan\u00a0 than any other of the Muslim League leaders. When Jinnah was asked who created Pakistan he said, \u201cI will tell you who made Pakistan. Myself, my secretary and his typewriter.\u2019 Nevertheless, K.H. Khurshid could not attend millions of mourners when the great leader died. In October, the Jinnah had sent him to visit his family in Srinagar. Sheikh Abdullah, who had been appointed by GOI India as Chief Administrator put him in jail- where he was still in jail Jinnah passed away in Karachi\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 
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\nIt is unimaginable. It sounds like a fairy tale. Nevertheless, it is a true story; history had cast role for a young student leader from Srinagar in contributing his mite in \u2018altering the course of history, modifying the map of the world and creating a nation state.\u2019\u00a0 The twenty-year-old student leader who earned distinction of joining the team of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a\u00a0 man of \u2018sartorial elegance\u2019 and \u2018indomitable will\u2019 \u2013 who occupies a place of \u2018primacy\u2019 in South Asian history,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 was Khurshid Hassan\u2026remembered as K.H. Khurshid.
\nIn 1942, a student organization, the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Students Federation was born in Srinagar to further the cause of the freedom.\u00a0 In a short span of time, it established its units in all colleges of both the provinces- Jammu and Kashmir. Ahmed-ullah Rani was elected as President and Khurshid Hassan as General Secretary of this organization. Our …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[155,361,24],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-take","category-kashmir-talk","tag-jinnah","tag-k-h-khurshid","tag-z-g-muhammad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}