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MJ Akbar is among those who have made a significant impact on Indian society by their writing, whether as authors or editors. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal newsmagazine, Sunday, in 1976, and The Telegraph in 1982, he revolutionized Indian journalism in the 1970s and 80s. In the 1990s he launched The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily that once again had substantive impact on the profession. He has also served as the Editorial Director of India Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and the Sunday Guardian.

MJ, as he is popularly known, first entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He went back to media in 1993, and returned to the political area in 2014, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the partys national spokesperson during the 2014 campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In July 2016, he was named the Minister of State for External Affairs by Prime Minister Modi.

His seven books have achieved great international acclaim: Kashmir: Behind the Vale; India The Siege Within; Nehru: The Making of India; Riot-after-Riot; The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity; Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan; and Blood Brothers, his only work of fiction. In addition, there have been four collections of his columns, reportage and essays.

OTHER TITLES BY MJ AKBAR

Blood Brothers: A Family Saga

Byline

Have Pen, Will Travel: Observations of a Globetrotter

Kashmir Behind the Vale

Nehru: The Making of India

The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity

OTHER LOTUS TITLES

Ajit Bhattacharjea	Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah: Tragic Hero of Kashmir
Anil Dharker	Icons: Men & Women Who Shaped Todays India
Aitzaz Ahsan	The Indus Saga: The Making of Pakistan
Alam Srinivas & TR Vivek	IPL: The Inside Story
Amarinder Singh	The Last Sunset: The Rise & Fall of the Lahore Durbar
Amjad Ali Khan	My Father Our Fraternity: The Story of Haafiz Ali Khan
B.K. Trehan & Indu Trehan	Retired But Not Tired: Retirement Made Easy
Indira Menon	The Madras Quartet: Women in Karnatak Music
Jaiwant Paul	The Greased Cartridge: The Heroes and Villains of 1857-58
John Lal	Begam Samru: Fading Portrait in a Gilded Frame
Lakshmi Vishwanathan	Women of Pride: The Devdasi Heritage
Roli Guide
Madan Gopal	My Life and Times: Munshi Premchand
Madhu Trehan	Tehelka as Metaphor
Rachel Dwyer	Yash Chopra: Fifty Years in India Cinema
Ralph Russell	The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of my Moving Pen
Salman Akthar	The Book of Emotions
Sharmishta Gooptu	Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation
Shrabani Basu	Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
S. Hussain Zaidi	Dongri to Dubai
Sunil Raman & Rohit Aggarwal	Delhi Durbar: 1911 The Complete Story
Swapan K. Bandyopadhyay	An Unheard Melody: Annapurna Devi an Authorised Biography
Thomas Weber	Going Native: Gandhis Relationship with Western Women
Thomas Weber	Gandhi at First Sight
Zubin Mehta	Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life
FORTHCOMING TITLE
Shahrayar Khan	Bhopal Connections: Vignettes of Royal Rule
Aruna Roy	The RTI Story: A Peoples Movement for Transparency

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For Ammiji and Abbaji with love and gratitude

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. THE BIRTH OF PAKISTAN AND THE SURVIVAL OF INDIA

The Rationale of 1947

Mullah Power in Pakistan

Masters, Not Friends

The Believer

Is the Weather Freezing?

A Home for Gandhis Soul

The Rise of the Jailbird

The Man Who Changed the Map of India

The Roll-Call of Honour

The Great River

Past and Future

II. PUNJAB

The State of a Problem

An Old Fear

A Faith and Two Religions

Punjab versus Delhi: The First Sikh Homeland

The Identity Crisis

Pagri Samhal, Jatta

The Complex Minority

The Bargain Hunters

The Politics of Faith

Searching for Khalistan

Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

Punjab: Death of a General

III. KASHMIR

Democracy in Paradise

Kings and Peasants

The Lion of Kashmir

Raiders of the Lost Cause

Nothing Proved

To Die an Indian

The Second Trial

Guilty till Proved Innocent?

Glory to Mother Bharat

A Phenomenon of Democracy

Index

INTRODUCTION

Carving up countries and kingdoms is as old as history. Boundaries, until quite recently, were no more than a measure of military strength or royal/national ambition. Partition was therefore the unsurprising fate of the defeated, or the merely unfortunate.

Before Europe set out to carve the world, it was busy carving itself up. The process was partially parallel; as some European powers seized the world, others tried to seize Europe. The logic of conquest in the tumult of nineteenth-century Europe often demanded partition. When wars were won by alliances, a division of the spoils became necessary. Victors supped on the vanquished, and sated themselves until their mistakes or miscalculations led to another shift in the balance of power, and perhaps role reversal. A country unlucky enough to be both strategically placed and weak, like Poland, was continually being redistributed in the name of someone elses security. Maps were redrawn at great conferences or in secret deals, where greed, deceit, chicanery and maneuvering between kings and diplomats were far more complex than the comparatively straightforward encounters between generals on a battlefield.

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