Name: Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam Hardcover – by M J Akbar
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury India (5 January 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 450 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9389449146
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9389449143
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 770 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm

Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain, embodied in the 'August Offer' of 1940. Gandhi's strength lay in ideological commitment which was, in the end, ravaged by the communal violence that engineered partition. The price of this epic confrontation, paid by the people, has stretched into generations.