Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam

Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain, embodied in the ''August Offer'' of 1940. Gandhi''s strength lay in ideolog...