TY  - GEN
AU  - Akbar, M.J. 
TI  - Gandhi's Hinduism
SN  - 9789389449143
U1  - 954.910359 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - All-India Muslim League
KW  - India
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Political Leaders
KW  - Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
KW  - Jinnah, Mahomed Ali, 1876-1948
N1  - Include Index
N2  - Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practising believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain, embodied in the 'August Offer' of 1940. Gandhi's strength lay in an ideological commitment which was, in the end, ravaged by the communal violence that engineered partition. The price of this epic confrontation, paid by the people, has stretched into generations
ER  -