The Partition of India

This below via gandhi-manibhavan.org Also found in Volume 98 of "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Electronic Book), New Delhi,...

{original post here } In Harijan of July 17, 1937, Mahatma Gandhi wrote about what he hoped for from the Congress ministries that were ...

The following is from "Slender was the Thread" (1969) by Lt. Gen. L.P. Sen.  Sen, then a Colonel,  was sent to Kashmir as acting...

Nowadays, Mahatma Gandhi's views on religion are considered to be responsible for Partition, responsible for many of India's ills, ...

"Hitler is not a bad man" - allegedly Gandhi wrote this;  the earliest reference that I can find to it dates to 1960: The e...

"Rashtrapita" or "Rashtra pita" translates to "Father of the Nation".  Somewhere along his career, Mahatma ...

"Mountbatten : A Biography" by Philip Ziegler (published in 1985) contains this passage about when Viceroy Mountbatten first met ...

An incident in the careers of Jinnah and Gandhi serves to illustrate how historians manufacture their narratives.  I've written about i...

Stanley Wolpert, "Jinnah of Pakistan" (chapter 3): "By January of 1915, Jinnah was home.  The Gujarat Society (Gurjar Sab...

We find this in Jaswant Singh's book - Jinnah : India - Partition - Independence.  Jaswant Singh's reference is "M.K. Gandhi a...

Stanley Wolpert & Jaswant Singh cite Volume XIII, page 9 of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi; however in the electronic version, ...

 Note: Riaz Ahmed sets the date of the event as January 13.   Jaswant Singh also sets it to January 13. The Collected Works of M...

From the Transfer of Power papers, Volume VI, #272 Richard Gardiner Casey, an Australian,  was the Governor of Bengal at the time of this...

Via Srinivas Sudhindra: Sita Ram Goel gives a balanced opinion on Gandhi in " Perversion of India's Political Parlance  "....