Unique work of nonfiction that compares the personalities and political ideologies of Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi.
Written in a fluid style that discusses the two leaders comprehensively without being academic in writing.
Never before has a work compared the two leaders in the same book.
Roderick Matthews' earlier book, The Flaws in the Jewel: Challenging the Myths of British India, was very well received.
Analyzes how the modern states of India and Pakistan are founded on fundamentally different positions belonging to the two leaders, and why they have shaped the way they are today.

About the Book: Jinnah vs. Gandhi

The modern history of South Asia is shaped by the personalities of its two most prominent politicians and ideologues-Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi. Jinnah shaped the final settlement by consistently demanding Pakistan, and Gandhi defined the largely non-violent nature of the campaign. Each made their contribution by taking over and refashioning a national political party, which they came to personify. Theirs would seem, therefore, to be a story of success, yet for each of them, the story ended in a kind of failure. How did two educated barristers who saw themselves as heralds of a newly independent country come to find themselves on opposite ends of the political spectrum? How did Jinnah, who started out a secular liberal, end up a Muslim nationalist? How did a God-fearing moralist and social reformer like Gandhi become a national political leader? And how did their fundamental divergences lead to the birth of two new countries that have shaped the political history of the subcontinent? This book skillfully chronicles the incredible similarities and ultimate differences between the two leaders, as their admirers and detractors would have it and as they actually were.