JINNAH: A Corrective reading of Indian History

I have glanced through your book Jinnah - A Corrective Reading of Indian History. I am afraid I could not go through the entire book owing to my preoccupation with the ongoing budget session of the Parliament. However, after having read snatches of it, I found the book very interesting and thought-provoking. The book has expounded a new theory with reference to the Indian freedom struggle. Though experts may have differing view about the conclusions you arrived at, I personally feel that the book provides new perspective. I agree with the opinion expressed by you about the Action Plan initiated by our great leader and former Prime Minister Late Rajiv Gandhi. His vision of world peace and nuclear disarmament is still relevant. I corroborate with the opinion expressed in the book that the Indian subcontinent will emerge as a force to reckon with and play a major role in world politics. Your book comes at an opportune moment when India and Pakistan are negotiating peace and cooperation. Dated: 28. February 2005 Place: New Delhi. (Pranab Mukherjee) Inter Press Service "There is no dearth of celebrated books dealing with the events that led up to the traumatic 1947 partition of the Indian sub-continent such as 'Freedom at Midnight' by Dominic Lapierrre and Larry Collins or even 'Midnight's Children' by Salman Rushdie. Asiananda... may not match the literary genius of a Rushdie but his book has a mission — to correct the image of Mohammed Ali Jinnah as the man widely held responsible for tearing asunder an entire civilization — and it has had remarkable success in achieving its plainly stated aim... If a single book can ever lay claim to having positively changed the tortuous course of Indo-Pakistan relations it would be the tome 'Jinnah - A Corrective Reading of Indian History' by Prof Asiananda" Ranjit Davraj The Hindu "Mr. Aiyar said the two countries would not be able to be at peace with each other as long as Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi continued to be demonized in India and Pakistan respectively. "Both were great leaders," he said, congratulating Prof. Asiananda for 'touching a topic many of us would not have dared to touch in India". Hon'ble Mani Shankar Aiyar, as reported in The Hindu, 15 Apr 05 The Telegraph Calcutta/London ".. .But his dissertation on Jinnah, whom he considers a decent fellow who was driven to distraction by "personality differences" with an unbending Gandhi, definitely deserves wider discussion in India." Amit Roy, London Rashtirya Sahara "For the mainstram India, Jinnah is the villain of partition. While accepting this truth, the book forcefully brings alive the Jinna of the first six decades of his life - a Jinnah who was not separatist, but secular nationalistic patriotic, who would gladly have uttered after the classical Roman 'Civis Indica sum'.... Many hitherto less know facts and novel arguments have been presented by Dr Asiananda in an extremely lucid and evocative style." Dr Ved Pratap Vaidik Dr. Abhishek M Singhvi (Spokesperson, AICC) "The overall get up of the book, your obvious commitment to diligent research and the originality of your thesis, are all deadly cocktail for certain success of the book. No conflict can be permanent and the contemporary winds of change, which are blowing over the subcontinent, are harbingers of a better and brighter future. I am certain that this book is bound to help breaking down the walls of prejudices in the hearts and minds of the people and in providing a rational reconciliation for the open minded and unbiased reader". Dr. Abhishek M Singhvi Contents Foreword by The Hon'ble Dr L M Singhvi Preface to the Third (Public) Edition Towards Transformative New Global Order The Inner Order That Holds All Redefining NPT - Let's Dismantle the Apartheid Covenant of the Mandala - 'Con-federal New UN' xiv On Book's Gandhian Critique Preface to the Second Private Edition Chancellor's Foreword Preface to the First Private Edition Executive Summary 20 Why was India Partitioned? Indo-Islam, Khilafat and Pakistan Transformative Historicism Volume II - Synoptic Perspective Gandhi: A Corrective Reading of Indian History Part I Defining the Theoretical Superstructure and Substructure 1. The South Asian Commonwealth - The Twenty-first Century Subcontinental and Global Agenda Beyond the Nation-State South Asian Glasnost is Here and Now Revising the Persisting Cold War Status Quo Second Manhattan Project - Second India Gate Project Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan and Human Future My Pledge to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Jinnah - A Corrective Reading of Indian History What Proved Congress Wrong, and Jinnah Right? Two Geopolitical Preconditions of Kashmir Settlement and Indo-Pak Reconciliation The Book in Nutshell Why the Corrective Reading of Indian History? From 'Clash of Civilizations' to the 'Confluencing Planetary Soul' Mandela, Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Rajiv Gandhi 2. Human Unity or Geopolitical Apartheid - On the Deadlock of Partitioned & Nuclerized Civilizational Personalities From Samuel Huntington to Global Reconciliation Status Quo - Revisionist Dialectics Asian Scene of World War III Breaking the Gordian Knot of Geopolitical Apartheid The Self-affirmed (nuclearized) Geopolitical Actors The Nuclear Club and Veto Rights Partitioned Civilizational Families Healing and Global Reconciliation Was Partition the Deliberate British Act? Con-federational New United Nations Surmounting the Last World Historical Conflict 3. The Raj, Paramountcy & King-Emperor - An Exploration into the Soul-level Confluence of Civilizations Human Unity is Today an Accomplished Fact Surface Clash and Deeper Confluence of Civilizations Civilization is the Process of Human Liberation 109 The Mutually Attracting Abrahamic and Vedic Civilizational Archetypes The Real Meaning of Indo-British Civilizational Encounter Laying the Corner Stone of South Asian Home Britain and India - The Soul-level Covenant India Gate - The Project Human Liberation The Covenantal Delhi Durbars he Camelot, New Delhi, New Jerusalem Nineteenth Century Confluence - Soul of Britain Nineteenth Century Confluence - The Indie Soul Non-Cooperation - Unmaking of the Indie Soul Escalating Battle Lines of Gandhi-Jinnah Feud Was Non-cooperation Worth the Salt? The Unfinished India Gate Towards the Second India Gate Part II Resolving the Deadlock Transcending the Nationality Conflict that was a Personality Conflict 4. Two Great Congressmen: Revisiting the Negated Gandhi-Jinnah-Raj Legacy Pre-Gandhian Congress Politics in Nutshell Liberating Civilization, Western Man from Collective Guilt Hind Swaraj - Is Civilisation a Disease? Is British Parliament 'Prostitute'? Pathology of an Arrested Puberty 174 Individuated Personality Response - British View of Indian Civilization From Hind Swaraj to Pax Indica Way Forward 5 The Making of M K Gandhi & MA Jinnah: Cooperation versus Non-Cooperation The London Worlds of M K Gandhi and M A Jinnah An Indepth Look in the Gandhian Psyche Jinnah - Falling in Love with London Jinnah - Self-perception of a Nominal-Muslim Indian The Bombay Career Worlds of M K Gandhi and M A Jinnah Gandhi - The South African Phase The Fated Train Journey - An Avoidable Accident Two Decades of South African Struggle The Authoritarian Spiritual Personality The Untold South African Story Gandhi - Epitome of Conflict, Resistance, Non-Cooperation From South Africa to India The Indian Nation Jinnah Envisioned Dimensions of Gandhi-Jinnah Compensation Needs A Quintessential Indian and a Quintessential Hindu Countervailing Civilization's Death Wish - Gandhian Truth or Dharmic Truth? 6. Quo Vadis 1920? - Lucknow Pact? or Khilafat? Retracing the Hindu-Right (Hindutva), Neo-Hindu (Bharatiyata), Pacific-Hindu (Hind Swaraj), Paths to Freedom Struggle Savarkar - From Armed Rebellion to Hindutva Savarkar, Mahratta-Chitpavan Soul, Hindu Custodianship The Chitpavans in Mahratta History Savarkar in London Towards a Savarkar Critique and Evaluation Lucknow Pact Option 1920 - Tracing the Neo-Hindu Path of Bharatiyata to 1947 Lucknow Pact and the New Congress Leadership The Neo-Hindu, Theosophical Beginning of Indian National Congress 1920 - The Theosophical Neo-Hindu Alternative to Hind Swaraj The Khilafat - Non-cooperation Path A Gandhian Critique and Assessment A Corrective Reading of Indian History New Delhi - The Gnostic Theosophical Memorial India Gate - The Omega Point of History's Convergence 7. Freedom Struggle - An Assessment Non-Cooperation would have delayed Freedom by Decades Freedom Struggle - A Balance Sheet Satyagraha and Hindu-Muslim Unity - A Reassessment Matricide - Sinning against Humanity Partition was Phenomenologically Inevitable Many-Nations, the Quintessential Indie Identity 2 8. Gnostic World Order of the Second India Gate The Timeless India India Gate Stands for Converging Civilizational Souls/Homes India's Revisionist Challenge - The Triumph of Spirit 291 After Liberty and Equality Now Fraternity - The Gnostic India Gate Second India Gate or India2047 Part III The Vedico-Quantum New Conception of History Theory of 'Confluence of Civilizations' 9. Skamba, Self the New Man - Grounding the Vedico-Quantum New Historical Conception Purusha, the Inner Order precedent to Big Bang India Gate is the Earthly Symbol of Skamba, New Man Skamba - The Theory of Civilizational Convergence 310 From Baser 'Animality' to Humanity and Divinity - The Process of Historical Transcendence Endurance of Collective Civilizational Visions Teleological Vision Committing Geopolitics to the Teleological Goal 10. Ruling Historical Conceptions Cyclical View Linear View The Jewish View Secular Varieties Islamic View Spherical View Towards the Integralist or the Post-materialist Synthesis 11. The Integralist Conception of History The Integralist Centrality of Person The Integralist World Order The Integralist Civilizational Confluence The Integralist is Individuation and Wholeness From Clash of Civilizations to Confluence and Commonwealth Part IV Trans-vedic Megacycle of Indian History Laying the Foundations of the Post-materialist Planetary Order 12. Pax Indica of Spirit - Its Unfolding Planetary Megacycle Laying the Foundations of the Post-Materialist Planetary Order Pax as Succession of Peace Orders in History Pax Indica - Its Historical Mould Pax Indica - Cosmological Conception Pax Indica - The Post-vedic Megacycle Pax Indica - The Pre-vedic Megacycle Methodological Frontiers - Transformative Historicism 13. Theoretical Foundations of Post-Material Planetary Order Megacyclical Interpretation of Indian History 1996 - Whither India? Whither Human Future?? Civilizational Counter Cycles Redefining Indian History Nuclear Subcontinent Healing the Subcontinent Skamba the Omega Point 14. Skamba - The Quantum Centre of Human Unity The Indie, Bedrock of Human Unity Skamba the Unseen Quanta of Human Unity Confluence of Prevedic and Postvedic Megacycles Bharatiyata the Higher Truth India Gate - Confluence of Indraprastha and Shahjehanabad 15. Geopolitical Foundations of the Post-Materialist Paramount Order The Pax Americana of Hope 368 Chester Bowles and Pax Americana of Hope from New Delhi JFK and the New Frontier - Its Tryst with the Indie Kennedy and the Pax Indica of the Spirit Pax Indica of the Spirit and Pax Americana of Hope Towards the South Asian Glasnost The Pending Historical Tasks in the Subcontinent Punjabiyat, Bengaliyat, Kashmiriyat: Comer Stones of S. Asian Home 378 Civis Indica Sum 379 PartV Regaining the Subcontinental Paramountcy and Coming Out of Kashmir, Ayodhya Stalemates 16. Situating Jinnah, Partition and South Asian Islam in Indian History Identity Crisis of Divided South Asian Islam Islam in Hindustan - Paramount Power; Composite Civilization 389 Indian Islamic Identity - Between Re-conversion and Reconciliation 391 The Wise Old Woman Shows the Way Out 17. Archetypal Core of Indo-Islamic Civilizational Integration 395 Beyond Kashmir as 'Core Issue' The Constitutional Status of South Asian Islam Why a Paramount Successor to the Raj Failed to Emerge? 18. Coming Out of Kashmir and Ayodhya Deadlocks We Must Face the Truth 404 Closing on the Warps and Woofs Coming Out of the Kashmir, Ayodhya Deadlocks In Conclusion - A Personal Confession Postscript Towards 'Second India Gate' Project Letter to the Prime Minister of India, Proposing Ad Hoc Committee 422 Gandhi: A Corrective Reading of Indian History Contents of Volume II Index