The present monograph entitled "Indian Muslims since
Partition" was, in fact, in the form of three lectures delivered by Mr. Balraj Puri,
a top-ranking human rightist and a free-lance journalist of repute on July 8, 9 and 10,
1992 under the auspices of the Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi. In these
lectures the learned author has given the background situation before the partition of the
‘United India" of the British colonialists and the trials and tribulations of
the Indian Muslims after the partition. The so-called independence or freedom which the
Indians and Pakistanis claimed that they had achieved proved to be a nightmare for both.
The question that has been taken up and explained in a summary manner needs to be explored
in detail by every student of Sociology, Political Science and History. The point that
demands our full attention is whether the Muslim League leaders of the days of partition
achieved all that they wished to achieve and on the other hand whether all that befell to
the Indian Muslims since then was all that they had apprehended before and immediately
after the partition. The author is well nigh silent on the first part of the question, but
deals in detail with the second one.
