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Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (2009)

by Jaswant Singh(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8129113783 (ISBN13: 9788129113788)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Rupa

review 1: I was reading a book by Bipin Chandra, India's struggle for freedom. In that book whenever the name of Jinnah came I felt a tickling going in my body which prodded me to read this book which was resting in my bookshelf for last five months. I picked this book before finishing the book in my hand. First few pages was very interesting but after that it became boring to ad nauseam. I am not scholar to understand this so called scholarly researched and detailed book but I unravel the basic information which author wanted to convey out of this massive drivel of 650 pages. Believe me, if you are not scholar,this is a boring book and writing style has power to put you to sleep after reading 10 pages. Here is the summary of this book. Author writes about history of Muslims and ... moreIndia in brief and about birth and childhood of Jinnah in few pages. Then he write about political life of Jinnah. It is a political biography. Author quotes many letters and reports which are very boring and lengthy. The real gist of this book is that partition can be avoided if Nehru and congress had agreed on federal form of govt rather than unitary form of govt with strong centre. Nehru strongly advocated the theory of strong centre so he particularly blaming Nehru for partition. One thing I learned from this book is that only scholarship or detailed knowledge can never make a good book if writing style is bland. Jaswant Singh is not a good story teller. I read books of Will Durant and I kowtow in front of this giant and greatest author who write about most complicated things (a thousand times more complicated than partition) in such good prose that you feel connected with the book but this mastery lacks in not only Jaswant Singh but also in many other amateur writers.
review 2: Reading this books took me down the memory lane, when I was a student in college and had a pretty heavy subject of Pakistan Studies. Pretty much everything I have studied on indo-pak partition is present in this book. What I found intresting is the detail Jaswant went on explaining the relationship between the trio - Jinnah Gandhi and Nehru. The book in the middle becomes a bit too detail and complex I guess the author wanted to capture every bit of event that happend in the last 5 years before partition. However, Jaswant has summed up well in the end though I dont agree with a few things what he has put in .. but still a three star from a patrotic Pakistani. less

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