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

Bolitho, Hector

 
9780195979015: In Quest of Jinnah: Diary, Notes, and Correspondence of Hector Bolitho
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ISBN 10 : 019597901X ISBN 13 : 9780195979015
Editeur : OUP Pakistan, 2007

Synopsis

The greatest travail to be undertaken by writers is that of the official biographer. In 1952, Beverly Nichols suggested Hector Bolitho, the New Zealand born biographer of Prince Albert, as the person best suited to write the biography of Pakistans founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-i-Azam and first Governor-General. Hector Bolithos Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (1954) became his most celebrated and influential book. Frustrated however, at what he was 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 personally, and the English and American reviews of the book's published version. All of this material is present in this volume, In Quest of Jinnah, which gives not only a stereovision of the original published version, but offers fresh and authentic insights into the personality and politics of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. It is a very rare phenomenon when the earlier version of a biography is preserved for comparison with the later published version. To compile and edit such a vast volume of valuable material, an extraordinary scholar of Jinnah and Pakistan Studies was required. Professor Sharif al Mujahid the founding Director of the Quaid-i-Azam Academy, doyen of Jinnah scholars in Pakistan and author of Jinnah Studies in Interpretation (1981), not only retrieved the material present in 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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Présentation de l'éditeur

The greatest travail to be undertaken by writers is that of the official biographer. In 1952, Beverly Nichols suggested Hector Bolitho, the New Zealand born biographer of Prince Albert, as the person best suited to write the biography of Pakistans founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-i-Azam and first Governor-General. Hector Bolithos Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (1954) became his most celebrated and influential book. Frustrated however, at what he was 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 personally, and the English and American reviews of the book's published version. All of this material is present in this volume, In Quest of Jinnah, which gives not only a stereovision of the original published version, but offers fresh and authentic insights into the personality and politics of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. It is a very rare phenomenon when the earlier version of a biography is preserved for comparison with the later published version. To compile and edit such a vast volume of valuable material, an extraordinary scholar of Jinnah and Pakistan Studies was required. Professor Sharif al Mujahid the founding Director of the Quaid-i-Azam Academy, doyen of Jinnah scholars in Pakistan and author of Jinnah Studies in Interpretation (1981), not only retrieved the material present in this volume but very carefully and meticulously edited it, to create a user-friendly volume for both the scholar and the general reader.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
OUP Pakistan
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019597901X
ISBN 13 
9780195979015
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
254
Éditeur
Mujahid Sharif Al
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