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THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 241 tation and advice to a Round Table Conference to be held in London. This announcement was followed on 12 May 1930 by the intimation that the Round Table Conference would be called together on or about 20 November 1930. On this occasion also Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II prepared and pub- lished a well-reasoned analysis of the report of the Simon Commission and put forward his suggestions with regard to the shape of the future constitution of India together with the safeguards that he considered essential in the interests of the Muslims. This booklet was published under the title The Solution of the Political Problem of India. It was given wide publicity both in India and in Britain and was much appre- ciated in thoughtful circles. It proved of great assistance to the Muslim representatives in the series of Round Table Confer- ences that were held in London in 1930, 1931 and 1932. . Mr Muhammad Ali Jinnah was one of the Muslim repre- sentatives in the First and Second Round Table Conferences, but he was so disgusted with what he considered the lack of reality in the discussions of the Conferences that at the end of the Second Conference he decided to withdraw from politics and settle down in London with the intention of carrying on his practice as an advocate before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In his own words: I received the shock of my life at the meetings of the Round Table Conference. In the face of danger the Hindu sentiment, the Hindu mind, the Hindu attitude led me to the conclusion that there was no hope of unity. I felt very pessimistic about my country. The position ,was most unfortunate. . . . I began to feel that I could neither help India, nor change the Hindu mentality; nor could I make the Muslims realize their precarious position. I felt so disap- pointed and so depressed that I decided to settle down in London. Not that I did not love India but I felt so utterly helpless Uinnah, by Hector Bolitho, London 1954, p. 100]. By 1933, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih was so distressed at the prospect that faced the Muslims in India that he felt very strongly that a person of the political sagacity and iron nerve of Mr Jinnah was needed to secure for the Muslims a decent