Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Subtitle: his personality and his politics
By: S.M. Burke and Salim Al-Din Quraishi.
Contributors: Quraishi, Salim al-Din.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Karachi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Jinnah, Mahomed Ali, 1876-1948.; Statesmen -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Description: That Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah won Pakistan against impossible odds, is well known, but the real reasons for Jinnah's successes are not widely recognized. The suspicion lingers that his policies were communal and negative and that Pakistan was a mistake. The reason for this is that the critics of Pakistan have written more voluminously and powerfully than its defenders. This book convincingly shows that it was Mahatma Gandhi who first introduced religion into politics. This ultimately drove the Hindus and the Muslims irreconcilably apart and eventually convinced even Jinnah - who had won the accolade of being the Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity - that his dream of a united India was nothing but a mirage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-400) and index.