真纳：印度、分治与独立 (2009)

《真纳：印度、分治与独立》（英语：Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence）是由前印度财政部长和外交部长贾斯万特·辛格为巴基斯坦政治家穆罕默德·阿里·真纳所著的传记。作者在书中认为贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁应就其集权政策为印巴分治负责，真纳因分治而被印度刻画成魔鬼。这些观点使得本书在出版后引起了巨大的争议，导致贾斯万特·辛格被印度人民党开除。本书的发布会仅有印度人民党的寥寥数人参加。真纳的外孙努斯利·瓦迪亚回应称：“我的外公就是我的外公，你无法改变我是穆罕默德·阿里·真纳的外孙的事实，而我对这一事实感到无比骄傲。”

影响

印度人民党在2009年8月19日的一次会议上声明“不会在信仰和意识形态问题上妥协”，进而开除了贾斯万特·辛格。印度古吉拉特邦政府因本书“可能构成对首任印度副总理萨达尔·瓦拉巴伊·帕特尔的诽谤”禁止在该邦流通此书，而辛格回应称“禁止书籍流通，就是在禁止思想的交流”。

其他传记

另一名印度政治家沙拉金尼·奈都曾编写真纳的第一部传记，名为《穆罕默德·真纳：统一大使》。该书由密歇根大学出版社在1918年出版，当时印巴尚未分治，且处在英国殖民之下。

Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence is a book written by Jaswant Singh, a former Finance Minister of India and an External Affairs Minister, on Muhammad Ali Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan) and the politics associated with the Partition of India. The book was released on 17 August 2009 and soon became the subject of controversy, subsequently leading to Singh's expulsion from the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). It contains controversial opinions of Singh, claiming that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's centralised policy was responsible for partition, and that Jinnah was portrayed as a 'demon' by India for the partition. The book launch ceremony was held at Teen Murti Bhavan in the presence of only a couple of BJP members.

Response

Singh was expelled by the BJP following a party meeting chaired by L.K. Advani on 19 August 2009 stating that they will not "compromise on matters of ideology or discipline". The government of the Indian state Gujarat banned the book for allegedly having defamatory references towards India's first home minister Vallabhbhai Patel. However, Gujarat lifted the ban on 4 September 2009 after a court struck it down. The Indian newspaper The Hindu claimed "Mark Tully, Meghnad Desai, Ram Jethmalani, Natwar Singh and Hameed Haroon said a new appraisal of Jinnah’s role was needed and Mr. Singh had done a commendable job."

In response to the book, Nusli Wadia, the grandson of Jinnah said: "My grandfather is my grandfather. You can't change the fact that I am his [Jinnah's] grandson, and I take extreme pride on being that."