Bharat Vibhajan Virodhi Musalmaan

Bharat Vibhajan Virodhi Musalmaan book

This book is author by Shamsul Islam and published by Pharos Media

डॉ॰ शम्सुल इस्लाम ने भारतीय स्वतंत्रता संग्राम के इतिहास में सबसे अधिक उपेक्षित किये गए अध्याय पर क़लम उठाया है, अर्थात् उन मुसलमानों पर जो भारत-विभाजन के विरोधी थे। छिपे तथ्यों को उजागर करने वाले शोध पर आधारित यह बहुमूल्य पुस्तक है जिसने भारत विभाजन से सम्बंधित बहुत सारे मिथकों का पर्दाफ़ाश किया है (डॉ॰ इश्तियाक़ अहमद, अवकाश प्राप्त प्रोफ़ेसर, स्टॉकहोम यूनिवर्सिटी) । समकालीन मूल स्रोतों पर आधारित, भारत-विभाजन पर यह महत्वपूर्ण अध्ययन यह बताता है कि 1940-42 में पाकिस्तान के विकल्प के मुक़ाबले में एक अखण्ड भारत के लिए मुसलमानों के बीच बहुत अधिक समर्थन पाया जाता था। अल्लाह बख़्श जैसे लोगों, जिन्होंने द्वि-राष्ट्र सिद्धांत का कड़ा विरोध किया और उसके लिए अपना जीवन तक क़ुर्बान किया, की आवाज़़ों को नज़रअंदाज़ किये जाने ने, हिन्दुत्व टोली को द्वि-राष्ट्र सिद्धांत के प्रति अपने जुड़ाओ से ध्यान भटकाने का ही काम किया है (डॉ॰ रिचर्ड बोनी, अवकाश प्राप्त प्रोफे़सर, यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ़ लेस्टर)

Dr. Shamsul Islam has written the most neglected chapter in the history of the Indian freedom struggle: on Muslims who were opposed to Partition. Based on ground-breaking research, it is an outstanding contribution which should set the record straight in great measure.—Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University; *****”This important study on the Partition of India, based on contemporary original sources, suggests that in 1940-2 there was more support among Muslims for an undivided India than for the Pakistan option. The failure to remember voices, such as that of Allah Bakhsh, who opposed two-nation theory vehemently and paid with his life, has helped the Hindutva camp to divert attention from its own commitment to the two-nation theory”.— Dr. Richard Bonney, Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester; ***** “Dr. Shamsul Islam’s book is a very timely intervention in the debate about the role of Muslims in India’s Partition. Relying on contemporary documents, he quashes the popular myth that India’s Partition was due to Muslims. He deserves all the credit for demolishing the two-nation theory and upholding the values of composite Indian nationalism, which majority of Indian Muslims adhered to.” —Dr. Ram Puniyani, Chairman, Center for Study of Society & Secularism, Mumbai; ***** “Muslims against Partition, who paid with their lives for Hindu-Muslim unity, have been written out of history in official Pakistani discourse for obvious reasons. More shockingly, they were written out of Indian history as well. It is this glaring missing chapter that Shamsul Islam’s matter-of-fact, meticulously researched and immensely readable book, gloriously fills.” —Anand Patwardhan, renowned author & film-maker.