{"id":138004,"date":"2023-06-03T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=138004"},"modified":"2023-06-03T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:44:11","slug":"he-wanted-to-become-a-muslim-gokhale-gokhale-returned-the-compliment-by-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/he-wanted-to-become-a-muslim-gokhale-gokhale-returned-the-compliment-by-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"He wanted to become a \u2018Muslim Gokhale\u2019; Gokhale returned the compliment by saying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. He wanted to become a \u2018Muslim Gokhale\u2019; Gokhale returned the compliment by saying, \u2018he has true stuff in him and that freedom from all sectarian prejudice will make him the best ambassador of a Hindu-Muslim unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reference here is to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) Syed Ahmad Khan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Aga Khan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) M A Jinnah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Maulana Azad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (c) M A Jinnah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reference here is to (c) M A Jinnah, referring to Muhammad Ali Jinnah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muhammad Ali Jinnah, also known as Quaid-e-Azam (Great Leader), was a prominent leader in the Indian independence movement and later became the founder and first Governor-General of Pakistan. He was a lawyer by profession and initially a member of the Indian National Congress, advocating for Hindu-Muslim unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jinnah aspired to become a &#8220;Muslim Gokhale,&#8221; referring to Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a prominent Indian political leader and mentor to many freedom fighters. Gokhale, recognizing Jinnah&#8217;s potential, remarked that Jinnah had true qualities within him and that his freedom from sectarian prejudice would make him the best ambassador for Hindu-Muslim unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as time progressed, Jinnah&#8217;s political ideology evolved, and he eventually became a strong advocate for a separate homeland for Muslims, leading to the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. Jinnah&#8217;s vision for a separate Muslim-majority nation led to the formation of Pakistan in 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. He wanted to become a \u2018Muslim Gokhale\u2019; Gokhale returned the compliment by saying, \u2018he has true stuff in him and that freedom from all sectarian prejudice will make him the best ambassador of a Hindu-Muslim unity. The reference here is to (a) Syed Ahmad Khan (b) Aga Khan (c) M A Jinnah (d) Maulana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":138006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"class_list":["post-138004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138007,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138004\/revisions\/138007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}