Mr and Mrs Jinnah: The Marriage That Shook India by Sheela Reddy. Published in 2017 by Penguin Viking, Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 7th Floor, Infinity Tower C, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon 122 002. Pp: viii + 421. Price: Rs 699.
A healthy dose of scepticism would not be out of place when approaching books that carry dramatic titles. This one claims to offer hitherto unrevealed insights into a marriage that ‘Shook India.’ Whether such claims are justified depends, to some extent at least, on the reader’s credulity. Few will deny that the union, in 1918, of Mohammed Ali Jinnah,......