The misunderstood politician – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Ayesha Jalal, Hector Bolitho, Venkat Dhulipala, Stanley Wolpert, Sheela Reddy, Jaswant Singh

Jinnah is called The Father of Pakistan. A portrait of Jinnah hangs in Lincoln’s Inn, London, his alma mater. It was presented by the High Commissioner of Pakistan on 11 October 1965.

Here are the best books on Jinnah. Salman Rushdie famously proclaimed Pakistan was an ‘insufficiently imagined ‘ nation-state. (p 3 Dhulipala)

Wolpert’s and Belitho’s are old classics. The Sole Spokesman is a political biography of Jinnah and whether Pakistan was his intended aim as he campaigned for ‘Pakistan ‘ from 1940 to 47.

Reddy’s is a 2017 book that examined his famous romance and subsequent marriage to the pretty Ruttie, a 16-year-old daughter of his good friend and client, the fabulously rich Parsi Sir Dinshaw Petit. This caused a rift between the lawyer and his client.

These books will give readers a complete picture of this much-misunderstood politician.

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