Apex-level political developments that eventually led to Partition, or the various specific moves-mainly by Mahatma Gandhi and Maulana Azad - to prevent that tragic end, or general reflections on the question of self-determination in comprehending not only the over-arching Hindu-Muslim problem which hung heavy over the political scene for so many decades, but also the ethnic movements of the smaller nationalities in the extreme north and west of the subcontinent, ...
