Book Reviews The Jinnah Anthology

Abstract

Doing a Jinnah anthology is by no means an easy undertaking. Sifting facts from fiction, which abound in the case of the founder of the nation, is one task; selecting from a huge corpus of literature the best stuff, is another. A more difficult task is to present the real Jinnah and to put his politics in right perspective. The real challenge, though, comes from the subject itself; given his peculiar positions and stances, and his unique personal traits which do not allow him to be stereotyped easily, Jinnah has perplexed the historians since long. Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps, was not wrong when he described him as an enigma of modern history. The editors of the present work deserve commendation for compiling a rich set of articles, essays, personal recollections, quotations, etc., which together give useful clues to resolve the riddle of Jinnah‟s personality and politics.