what prompted Quaid e azam to ask for an independent country for Indian Muslims
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Answer by Anon before me does deal with the question quite well. Jinnah was epitomy of a Brown Sahib. He was through & through secularist and strongly suspect was also an atheist just like Nehru. In fact a significant literate membership of INC was made of secularist atheists. Jinnah to his great credit was one of the few Indian politicians who in a principled manner opposed any truck with Khilafat movement - restoration of Caliph in the aftermath of Ottoman collapse. He warned Gandhi that it is not the right way to draw support from muslims. That was idealistic Jinnah.
On the other hand Jinnah was Brown Sahib, with airs. He had great disdain for the masses. He was an ivory tower intellectual. Whereas his rival Nehru, who was almost everything Jinnah was except he did not hold common folk in disdain (or not at least as much). He was well aware that given the low literacy of India, to rule such a behemoth with 25+ languages and cultures required persuasion & populism. So around the time of independence it was absolutely clear that Nehru was destined to be the Prime Minister. Jinnah counted on his pedigree would give him prime ministership. On pedigree Nehru was no slouch either. Then again Jinnah was a vane man too, extremely vane. He could not countenance playing the second fiddle to Nehru. Finally his lust for title & pageantry got better of everything else of his personality and intellect. He for sure had foreseen the possibility of massacres, the eventual fact that just as many muslims would be left behind in secular India, as would move to Pakistan, yet he went for it. The final tragedy of sub-continent was Jinnah was well aware of his imminent demise and aware of utter lack of 2nd tier muslim parochial leadership. Still his lust for title & Pageantry won over so he swung whole hog towards Pakistan. That is the tragedy that was Jinnah and what was not obvious initially is also the tragedy of this world. Because an United Secular India with 1/3 of muslim population of the world living in harmony would have been a much greater model for rest of the muslim world what a secular democracy has to offer, in contrast with the secular militaristic dictatorship of Turkey. That would have ensured a countervailing forces against wahhabism. SO Jinnah was a tragedy not only for India but for the entire world.