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Sunday, June 26, 2005

When Jinnah was right and Gandhi was wrong

In a lovely little essay, Mukul Kesavan relates how the manner in which Mahatma Gandhi took over the Congress party "did the anti-colonial movement incalculable damage." Muhammad Ali Jinnah plays the moderate Muslim in this story, while Gandhi panders to the extremists.
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