In Quest of Jinnah: Diary, Notes, and Correspondence of Hector Bolitho

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The greatest travail to be undertaken by writers is that of the official biographer. In 1953, Beverly Nichols suggested Hector Bolitho, the New Zealand born biographer of Prince Albert, as the person best suited to write the biography of Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-i-Azam and first Governor-General. Hector Bolitho’s Jinnah: Writer of Pakistan (1954) became his most celebrated and influential book. Frustrated then again, at what he used to be not allowed to write or include, Bolitho preserved for scholars the first draft of his biography, his diary and notes, his correspondence with Government of Pakistan functionaries and highly placed individuals in Britain, India and Pakistan who had known Jinnah individually, and the English and American reviews of the book’s published version. All of this material is present on this volume.

In Quest of Jinnah which gives not just a stereovision of the original published version, but offers fresh and authentic insights into the personality and politics of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is a very rare version. To compile and edit this sort of vast volume of valuable material, an peculiar scholar of Jinnah and Academy, doyen of Jinnah scholars in Pakistan and creator of Jinnah Studies in Interpretation (1981), not only retrieved the material present on this volume but very carefully and meticulously edited it, to create a user-friendly volume for both the scholar and the general reader.

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