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Article: BJP needs to create a separate identity.

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August 29, 2009
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Byline: Kuldip Nayar, Special to Gulf News

It was more than a storm in a tea cup. Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah made more news than his expulsion from the BJP for having written it. I have been a witness to the era of partition and before. I think Singh has been unfair to history. If blame is to be apportioned - a futile exercise after 62 years - the British, the Muslim League and the Congress, in that order, are guilty.

Scholars from both India and Pakistan should discuss why two communities - Hindus and Muslims - got so alienated from each other in the early forties that something like Partition became inevitable.

Still, it is a ...

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