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Jinnah: In Search of Political Power
Dinesh Kumar Singh
Mohammed Ali Jinnah [1876–1948] is one of the most controversial figures in modern Indian history. He has been contested not only in the country in which he began his political career but also in the country that he founded. India’s collective consciousness and popular imagination still considers him as a villain who was instrumental in creating Pakistan and sabotaging the political idea of a unified country. He started off as a nationalist, advocating constitutional reforms to change the oppressive and divisive policies of the British government. However, after 1937 he propounded the two-nation theory, which held that Hindus and Muslims were two separate nations who could not live together. ...
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