My introduction

I was born on November 16, 1893 in village Balachaur, District Hoshiarpur, Punjab. I got my early education in Jalandhar and graduated from Islamia College, Lahore in 1919. In 1930, I left for Cambridge (England) for my postgraduate studies in Law. I finished my education obtaining M.A. LL.B., with honours from the University of Cambridge and Dublin respectively.
It all started in 1915 in my inaugural address to Bazam-i-Shibli, in these words:"North of India is Muslim and we will keep it Muslim. Not only that, we will make it a Muslim State. But this we can do only if and when we and our North cease to be Indian. For that is a pre-requisite to it. So the sooner we shed 'Indianism', the better for us all and for Islam". This idea was stuck in my mind and I worked on it for so many years. While, I was in England in 1930 when a series of Round Table Conference were held in London to devise a new Constitution for India and delegates of all communities and parties of whom about 26 were Muslims were invited to participate. On this occasion, I approached the Muslim delegates, and discussed with them the political and constitutional situation from Muslim point of view.