The Partition of India

One of the small pleasures of this work is the connecting of minor dots.  In this case,  this is about some statement about Pakistan that ...

A story of the Muslim League nominees to the Interim Government in October 1946,  and its later (mis)remembrance by Maulana Azad is spelled...

 In March 1946, the British impression was that Jinnah did not hold H.S. Suhrawardy in high regard.  The break between Jinnah and Suhrawar...

M.S.M. Sharma was the editor of The Daily Gazette , Karachi, at the time of Partition.  He lasted in Pakistan till around January 1948, whe...

Sardar Patel disagreed with Maulana Azad's strategy for Punjab in the 1946 elections, but deferred to him.  Some of his disagreement is...

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

Professor Ishtiaq Ahmed writes in the Daily Times:  In a meeting in May 1947 sponsored by Lord Mountbatten to help the Muslims and Sik...