Jinnah of Pakistan & Danger in Kashmir - Books Review
Jinnah of Pakistan
Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the inspirational father and first head of the state of Pakistan. Wolpert shows how Jinnah’s shrewd and skilful leadership combined brilliant advocacy and singular tenacity to win his suit for the creation of Pakistan on behalf of the ‘Muslim nation’— his sole client during the last, lonely, pain-filled decade of his life.
Stanley Wolpert, one of America’s foremost experts on South Asia, is Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. His books include Roots of Confrontation in South Asia, A New History of India (Second Edition, 1982), Morley and India 1906-1910, Nine Hours to Rama, and Tilak and Gokhale.
Danger in Kashmir
On 15 August, 1947, two countries, India and Pakistan had their independence thrust upon them in a somewhat urgent and not completely orderly manner.It was not that the peoples of these two new-born countries had not been agitating for independence-as indeed they had for many years, sometimes with open violence,but mostly with passive resistance. When suddenly Independence came with a rush, these new countries, whose combined numbers approximate one-fifth of the world’s population, were ill-prepared for the peaceful settlement of the many knotty problems that such a hasty separation entailed .
Dr. Josef Korbel served as a member of the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan during its early and critical days and in that capacity visited India, Pakistan, and Kashmir, conferring with their leaders and meeting their people.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the inspirational father and first head of the state of Pakistan. Wolpert shows how Jinnah’s shrewd and skilful leadership combined brilliant advocacy and singular tenacity to win his suit for the creation of Pakistan on behalf of the ‘Muslim nation’— his sole client during the last, lonely, pain-filled decade of his life.
Stanley Wolpert, one of America’s foremost experts on South Asia, is Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. His books include Roots of Confrontation in South Asia, A New History of India (Second Edition, 1982), Morley and India 1906-1910, Nine Hours to Rama, and Tilak and Gokhale.
Danger in Kashmir
On 15 August, 1947, two countries, India and Pakistan had their independence thrust upon them in a somewhat urgent and not completely orderly manner.It was not that the peoples of these two new-born countries had not been agitating for independence-as indeed they had for many years, sometimes with open violence,but mostly with passive resistance. When suddenly Independence came with a rush, these new countries, whose combined numbers approximate one-fifth of the world’s population, were ill-prepared for the peaceful settlement of the many knotty problems that such a hasty separation entailed .
Dr. Josef Korbel served as a member of the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan during its early and critical days and in that capacity visited India, Pakistan, and Kashmir, conferring with their leaders and meeting their people.
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