The life and achievements of Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876 -1948) being central to the theme of Independence and Partition, have attracted divergent opinions, each strand having varying shades. In the present work all available Western and Indian studies on M. A. Jinnah have been surveyed. An assessment of selected Pakistani views on Jinnah are also appended. Since most accounts of M.A. Jinnah's life and work are comparative in design, profiles of the three leaders considered his adversaries are included. They are Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Azad and Moulvi Fazlul Haq.

Professor Kazimi's book on Western, Indian and Pakistani writers who have looked at the complex and enigmatic figure of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, is a work of considerable scholarship and sensitivity that adds considerably to our understanding of Jinnah and all those who have written about him---David Taylor, Professor of History, Aga Khan University, London.

With multiple volumes on the lives and the works of great Muslims from the past from poets and philosophers to politicians Muhammad Kazimi is one of the leading scholars of Pakistan today. His volumes on the life of Liaquat Ali Khan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah's "right hand" are seminal. Likewise whether writing for academic audiences or for the press Kazimi always offers the most balanced and scholarly accounts of the life and ideas of M. A. Jinnah. Kazimi joins Stanley Wolpert as one of the most lucid commentators on the seemingly impossible life of a confirmed secularist who fought for and created a state based on religious identity. This volume is essential reading. Roger D. Long, Professor of History, East Michigan University