Mr jinnah vs gandhi biography

HECTOR Bolitho’s biography, Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan, doesn’t get the attention it deserves, even though it was the Quaid-e-Azam’s first biography in English by an internationally recognised author.

Mr jinnah vs gandhi biography

American writer Stanley Wolpert mentions him only briefly in his classic, Jinnah of Pakistan, while the young Pakistani writer Yasser Latif Hamdani in his Jinnah: A Life, totally ignores him. Maybe, on a humble personal level, the Bolitho book has had a lasting impression on me because I read it in my intellectually formative years at college.

Like all biographies, the Bolitho book covers every phase of Jinnah’s life — from childhood, through his navigation of the Muslim cause, and up to his death.

But what adds to the book’s readability for the layperson is his emphasis on some of the traits in Jinnah’s character and the contrast with Mahatma Gandhi.

Both were great men of the kind history produces in centuries, both had respect for each other despite acute political differences a