Pakistan, Oct. 12 -- Mr Jinnah is an extraordinary person in history, no matter how you look at it. For 38 years after partition, there was extreme nationalist propaganda about him both in Pakistan and India - in Pakistan he is presented as a champion of Islam and in India he is a villain of all villains.

All of this changed in 1985 the year Dr Ayesha Jalal published her magnificent book "Sole Spokesman". In this book she showed - very convincingly- that for -Jinnah the idea of a separate Muslim majority group was in congruence with the idea of a United India, which would slowly march towards a more perfect union. Many have tried to counter this view. First it was a little known Indian historian- and a prejudiced one at that- from North ...