About the BOOK
A fascinating account of the Muslims in twentieth-centuryIndia, Pakistan and Bangladesh through his biographical sketches of eightprominent Muslims- Sayyid Ahmed Khan (1817-1898), Fazlul Haq (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 ZakirHussain (1897-1969) Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, provides adeeply insightful and comprehensive picture of the community in thesubcontinent today.
About the AUTHOR
Rajmohan Gandhi is a biographer and a research professor atthe Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, US. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and ChakravarthiRajagopalachari. He is also a scholar in residence at the Indian Institute ofTechnology Gandhinagar.