Eight Lives: A Study of the Hindu-Muslim EncounterThis book was written by a Hindu, the grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi. His intent, in writing on eight Muslims and their influence on India in the twentieth century, is to reduce the gulf between Hindu and Muslims. Focusing on figures viewed as heroes by sub-continent Muslims, he shows that they can be admired by Hindus as well--that they need not be frozen in Hindu minds as foes. Here is a fascinating account of twentieth-century India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh told through biographical sketches of eight men: Sayyid Ahmed Khan (1817-1898), Fazlul Huq (1873-1962), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), Muhammad Iqbal (1876-1938), Muhammad Ali (1878-1931), Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958), Liaqat Ali Khan (1895-1951), and Zakir Husain (1897-1969). |
Contents
HINDUS AND MUSLIMS | 1 |
SAYYID AHMED KHAN 18171898 | 19 |
MUHAMMAD IQBAL 18761938 | 47 |
MUHAMMAD ALI 18781931 | 81 |
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH 15761948 | 123 |
FAZLUL HUQ 18731962 | 189 |
ABUL KALAM AZAD 18881958 | 219 |
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