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I first heard about this book from my favourite English teacher at school, but 

 

could lay my hands only after I entered college. Reading it then, as out of 

 

school youngster living through the immediately post-independence era-then 

 

virtually one-party rule, one leader-Nehru, of the socialistic pattern of Five 

 

Year Plans with "commanding heights", the wars with Pakistan and China, 

 

was different from reading it now, with certain banned sections restored.

 

The story of how India wins Freedom was written by one of the most low 

 

profile dramatis personae of the Freedom Movement known to all as Maulana 

 

Azad, independent India's first education minister. It provides the reader a 

 

peek into what actually happened along the long road to freedom.

 

After all, over 30 million copies of this book have been sold. At his request the 

 

initial editions of India wins Freedom had blocked certain passages that he 

 

considered politically sensitive just then. Though its full text was confined 

 

under seal in the National Library, Calcutta and the National Archives, New 

 

Delhi for thirty years, in 1958 a slightly abridged and revised version was 

 

published leaving out "incidents and reflections mainly of a personal 

 

character."

 

I have now reviewed the complete text, its 2009 reprint-initially released in 

 

September 1988 under a court directive. All the words and phrases of the 

 

original have been reproduced to restore the tone and temper to unravel the 

 

controversies that simmered for long about what lay in the blocked text. The 

 

Maulana comes out with his frank personal assessments and forthright views 

 

of the events and personalities involved. He depicts them in their true colours 

 

that were hitherto shielded from public eye and his assessments, on the 

 

benefit of hindsight are bang on.

 

Abul Kalam Azad, a Maulana and a distinguished scholar was elected 

 

president of the Indian National Congress first in 1923. This was at a time 

 

when he and Gandhi just entered the Indian political arena almost hand-in-

 

hand. He was considered closer to Nehru, but disapproved of his ways as those 

 

of Gandhiji and Sardar Patel-he doesn't mince words, he is brutally frank in 

 

expressing his views that he penned.    

 

The 1940s were momentous years in the history of the Freedom Movement. 

 

Azad was re-elected Congress president in 1940 and held office till 1946, 

 

another landmark year. Azad along with Gandhi and Nehru held talks with the 

 

British Cripps Mission, Viceroys Wavell and Mountbatten.

 

Azad recounts two of his conclusions during the talks with the British that 

 

were "doomed to failure". The arrest of the Congress leaders on the morning of 

 

9 August 1942 following the Quit India Resolution and the World Wall II was 

 

coming to and end with the Allies firmly in control. Following Gandhiji's 21-

 

day fast he took a decision that if India was declared free, it would voluntarily 

 

side with the British by extending full support to the war effort. The second 

 

was at making fresh attempts to meet Jinnah to come to an understanding 

 

with the Muslim League. He writes "It was largely due to Gandhiji's acts of 

 

omission and commission that Jinnah regained his importance in Indian 

 

political life. In fact, it is doubtful if Jinnah could have achieved supremacy, 

 

but for Gandhi's attitude."  

 

After Azad stepped down from his Congress presidentship in 1946, he said 

 

later that he'd have preferred Vallabhai Patel as successor, but under intense 

 

pressure had to choose Nehru. He frankly concedes, "That was, perhaps, the 

 

greatest blunder of my political life... (had Patel been chosen) he would have 

 

seen to it that the Cabinet Mission was successfully implemented... he would 

 

have never committed the mistake of Jawaharlal which gave Jinnah the 

 

opportunity to sabotage the Plan... I cannot forgive myself when I think that if 

 

I had not committed the mistakes of the history of the last ten years would 

 

have been different." It indeed would have made a world of difference to 

 

India's history-no Partition and massacre of both Hindus and Muslims, no 

 

Pakistan, no wars, no cross-border terrorism and 26/11s.

 

Azad also recounts in detail the errors committed by everyone and all that 

 

smack of blatant hypocrisy. As Congress president Azad, in 1940, had declared 

 

that if India's political problem was to be solved it should not only join the war 

 

of its own free will but would also adopt conscription and send every able 

 

young man to the war front. No one heard him then. He believed that had this 

 

happened the duration of the war would have shortened and rendered British 

 

morally indebted and the Muslim League and Jinnah could have been totally 

 

sidelined and the disastrous consequences-no Partition. Unfortunately for 

 

India his advice was disregarded!

 

Azad takes us into the times, mindsets and the outcomes of the contradictory 

 

stands taken by his illustrious contemporaries like MN Roy, Gandhi, Patel, the 

 

Nehrus-Motilal and Jawaharlal, CR Das, Rajaji and Subhas Chandra Bose. Of 

 

his friend Nehru, he says was prone to talk in his sleep "carrying on a debate, 

 

sometimes muttering and sometimes talking loudly...  indicating how much 

 

strain under which Nehru was working."

 

As one who has also read earlier volume I find this one much more alive. His 

 

views on the Muslim League and Jinnah-disapproval of Gandhiji conferring 

 

the title Qaid-e-Azam on  him and letting the League have the finance 

 

portfolio just because Patel wanted Home, makes us admire a afresh the 

 

honesty and courage of this son of India who has been largely ignored by our 

 

historians. This book is a must read for those really want to know of Indian 

 

Freedom Movement in the context of contemporary Indian history.

 

^That (except the spoiler) was my history project.

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I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm glad someone got it right.

Edited July 25, 2015 by Shedinja

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