JINNAH: INDIA- PARTITION INDEPENDENCE BOOK DESCRIPTION
Lord Mountbatten: I tried every trick I could play... to shake Jinnah's
resolve.Nothing wouldmove him from his consuming determination to realise the
dream of Pakistan...The date I chose (for Independence) came out of the blue. I
was determined to show I was master of the whole event.
The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has
without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has
seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this
partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible -- Jinnah? The Congress
party? Or the British?