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Ep 163: Who Broke Our Republic?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Jinnah, Gandhi and the Kilaafat Movement

Jinnah was part of a band with Goklei and Firoshamatha. Jinnah finds this incongruous and incoherent that you have a demand for this larger Muslim Uma tied together with this quest for Indian nationhood. This coming together doesn't make sense to him but this coming together is a willing or unwilling tactical ploy which allows Gandhi to take over the Congress party. And it's very interesting that how then this person who was until then a great moderate leader suddenly then goes off into this different direction driven by circumstances.

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