Speaking about the book’s thesis, Dwivedi said his research into transfer of power documents led him to conclude that Jinnah did not build Pakistan.
He said that electoral outcomes in the 1946 provincial elections, where Congress governments were formed in multiple provinces and the Muslim League did not hold decisive authority across the subcontinent, undercut narratives that attribute Pakistan’s creation solely to Jinnah.
“I found so many documents of what was happening behind the scenes. Politicians say one thing, outside. What is happening inside is quite different. I believe, after reading all this in the transfer of paper documents, that Jinnah is not the Quaid-e-Azam. He did not build Pakistan. In the 1946 elections, after the World War was over, everybody was released from Congress, elections took place. Eight provinces, Congress government. Two provinces in the northwest, Punjab, coalition government, which is non-Muslim. In northwest Punjab province also it was Congress government. How could Jinnah build Pakistan? There was no question. He had no authority, no power. The people were not behind him. So it is the British who prepared the dough and baked the cake of Pakistan,” he remarked.