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A Freedom Of Pain And Hope 'We needed to make a demon of Jinnah... Let's learn from our mistakes'
Q&A: Jaswant Singh
Business Standard / New Delhi August 17, 2009, 0:51 IST
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh’s biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, out today, promises to be much-discussed. He talks about it to Karan Thapar on the CNN-IBN channel’s ‘Devil’s Advocate’ programme. Excerpts:

Mr Jaswant Singh, let's start by establishing how you as the author view Mohammed Ali Jinnah. You don’t subscribe to the popular demonisation of the man?
Of course, I don't. If I wasn't drawn to the personality, I wouldn't have written the book. It's an intricate, complex personality of great character, determination...

And it's a personality that you found quite attractive?
Naturally, otherwise, I wouldn't have ventured down the book. I found the personality sufficiently attractive to go and research it for five years.

Jinnah joined the Congress party long before he joined the Muslim League and in fact when he joined the Muslim League, he issued a statement to say that this in no way implies “even the shadow of disloyalty to the national cause”. Would you say that in the 20s and 30s and may be even the early years of the 40s, Jinnah was a nationalist?
The acme of his nationalistic achievement was the 1916 Lucknow Pact of Hindu-Muslim unity and that's why Gopal Krishna Gokhale called him the Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Many people believe Jinnah hated Hindus?
Totally wrong. His principal disagreement was with the Congress party. He says this even in his last statements to the press and to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. He had no problems whatsoever with the Hindus.

As you look back on Jinnah's life, would you say that he was a great man?
Yes, because he created something out of nothing and single-handedly, he stood up against the might of the Congress party and against the British, who didn't really like him. He was a self-made man. He carved out in Bombay a position in that cosmopolitan city being what he was, poor. He was so poor, he had to walk to work.

How seriously has India misunderstood Jinnah?
I think we misunderstood because we needed to create a demon.

We needed a demon because in the 20th century, the most telling event in the entire subcontinent was the partition of the country.
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