Why has Indias BJP disowned the Jinnah book?”
India’s Hindu nationalist BJP has “disassociated” itself from a new book on Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, written by a party leader. Jaswant Singh’s book, Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence says that Mr Jinnah has been “demonised in India”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8207027.stm ———- Jinnah [may his soul rest in peace] views on him is so varied…many number of Muslims in India do blame him for the treatment they experience in the aftermath of the partition…that is being unrepresented in India..[which i disagree with] but the BJP disowned it…hmmm… __________________ To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~E.E.
Years before veteran politician Jaswant Singh, who was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday, a well-known historian here was championing Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s many admirable qualities, including his passion for a united India. Ayesha Jalal, professor of history at Tufts University, has for long spoken about Jinnah’s failed quest to remain within a united India while guaranteeing the Muslim community equal rights. Her book “The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and Demand for Pakistan” is widely regarded as the most definitive work on Jinnah and the circumstances that led to the creation of Pakistan. “My understanding of Jinnah, and I have done substantial research on him, is that he never really abandoned the idea of a united India,” Jalal says in an upcoming documentary on Jinnah and the creation of Pakistan by US-based journalist Mayank Chhaya. “A united India for him included a Pakistan. He invoked Pakistan based on the Muslim majority pr
