One of the makers of modern India tells the story of the partition of India as never before, with intimate knowledge and feeling. India Wins Freedom has at last won its own freedom. The full text of this autobiographical narrative was confined, under seal, in the National Library, Calcutta, and in the National Archives, New Delhi, for thirty years. What we now have is the complete text, released in September 1988, by a court directive. Not only have all the words and phrases of the original been reproduced, the original tone and temper have been fully restored. The text now reveals that the controversy that has simmered for so long about the hitherto unpublished pages, was fully justified.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958), named Firoz Bakht at birth but known in his youth as Muhiyuddin Ahmad and later adopted the pseudonym of ‘Abul Kalam Azad’; descended from a family which came from Herat to India in Babar’s time; among his ancestors were well-known scholars, divines and administrators.· Born in Meeca, where his father Maulana Khairuddin had migrated after the 1857 Revolt; came as an infan’110 Calcuua in 1890 and the family reseuled here. Educated at home by his· father and by private tutors; his political awakening was expedited by the partition (later annulled) of Bengal in 1905; travelled in Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and France and had planned to visit London but returned home in 1908 on. account of father’s illness.
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