Did Jinnah's tumultuous marriage shape his political choices?

An account of tumultuous marriage of Pakistan's founder provides pointers to his political choices

Mr and Mrs Jinnah

The Marriage That Shook India

Author: Sheela Reddy

Publisher: Penguin Viking India

Pages: 421

Price: Rs 699

Of all the stalwarts of India’s freedom movement, the one who remains largely an enigma is Mohammad Ali Jinnah. A reserved, self-made man whose life followed a carefully laid out plan, Jinnah is often described as a cold rationalist who went from being an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity to one who would execute the British policy of divide and rule in the most extreme form: Partition.

The reasons and the circumstances that brought about this acute transformation, however,