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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Role
Pakistan's founder
Lived
1876–1948
Country of activity
Pakistan Pakistan
Strongest axis
Nationalism 83%

Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the All-India Muslim League and campaigned for the creation of Pakistan. He became the country's first governor-general in 1947 and died in 1948, remembered as Quaid-e-Azam for the two-nation theory and the 1947 speech on religious freedom.

In the 12 Axes register, Muhammad Ali Jinnah leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Nationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.

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The twelve axes

Where Muhammad Ali Jinnah sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

Federal 68%Unitary

Federal

Favored provincial autonomy under a federal constitution

Democratic 68%Autocratic

Representative Democracy

Constitutionalist who led the Muslim League

SecurityFreedom 68%

Liberal

Trained barrister who defended civil liberties

Diplomacy

InternationalismNationalism 83%

Nationalist

Founded Pakistan on the two-nation theory

MilitaristPacifist

Neutral

Did not pursue militarist policy

AssimilationistMulticulturalist 68%

Polyculturalist

11 August 1947 speech promised equal citizenship

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize

Mixed Economic

Led a postal workers' union; founded a Muslim chamber of commerce

PlannedMarkets

Balanced

Took no strong stance on economic planning

IsolationismGlobalism

Moderate

Wanted dominion ties with Britain

Society

IrreligiousReligious 68%

Spiritual

Sought a homeland for South Asian Muslims

ProgressiveTraditional

Moderate

Modernist in dress and personal conduct

AccelerationBioconservative

Neutral

Took no distinctive technology position

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Federal – Unitary

On Federal – Unitary, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is at Federal 68%. The register median is Unitary 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Democratic – Autocratic

On Democratic – Autocratic, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.

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Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].