The Maulana had left careful instructions regarding thirty-odd pages of India Wins Freedom—these were to be made public only after he and Nehru were dead. When Azad’s brutally honest version exposing the duplicity of the Congress finally came to light in 1988, it invited some motivated criticism but it did not inspire the extended debate which it deserved. History owes the Maulana gratitude for having recorded crucial facts which may have been erased by time. Where Azad disappoints is in his own role during this phase. The Congress volte face on partition was strong enough reason for him to
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