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Mr and Mrs Jinnah
The Marriage That Shook India
Author: Sheela Reddy
Publisher: Penguin Viking India
Pages: 421
Price: Rs 699
Of all the stalwarts of India’s freedom movement, the one who remains largely an enigma is Mohammad Ali Jinnah. A reserved, self-made man whose life followed a carefully laid out plan, Jinnah is often described as a cold rationalist who went from being an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity to one who would execute the British policy of divide and rule in the most extreme form: Partition.
The reasons and the circumstances that brought about this acute transformation, however,
