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Mohammad Ali Jinnah was for Pakistan what Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru combined were for modern India—inspirational father and first head of state. Jinnah began his career as the Indian National Congress’s ‘Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity’ but ended it forty years later as the architect of the partition that split Pakistan away from India. This authoritative and uniquely insightful biography explores the fascinating public and private life of this eminently powerful but little understood leader who changed the map of the Asian subcontinent. Portraying Jinnah’s story in all of its human complexity. Wolpert begins in the late nineteenth century with Jinnah’s early life as a provincial country-boy in Karachi and follows him to London where he studied law and became a British barrister. Returning to India in 1896, Jinnah rapidly ascended the dual ladders of Indian law and politics, climbing to the top rung of each. By the 1920s, however, it appeared that Jinnah’s political career was at an end, superseded by the rise of Gandhi’s leadership and the movement of India in a more revolutionary direction. Yet, Jinnah was to remain a pivotal figure in the turbulent decades that followed, as India struggled for independence from British rule amid growing Hindu-Muslim antagonism. Wolpert vividly recounts how the tragic clash of personalities and party platforms that initially pitted Jinnah against Gandhi escalated from a personal rivalry into a conflict of national and international proportions. Wolpert shows how Jinnah’s shrewd and skillful leadership combined brilliant advocacy and singular tenacity to win his suit for the creation of Pakistan on behalf of the ‘Muslim nation’—his sole client during the last, lonely, pain-filled decade of his life.
BornDecember 23, 1927
Brooklyn, New York
DiedFebruary 19, 2019 (aged 91)
Alma materCity College (B.A.)
University of Pennsylvania (A.M.) (Ph.D.)
OccupationIndologist
Morley and India Nineteen Six to Nineteen Ten (1967); Jinnah of Pakistan (1984)

National Center and learned that India had just exploded three under-ground nuclear bombs in Pokhran. A few days later Prime Minister Vajpayee announced, following several further successful explosions, that India had 'a very big bomb' and was a 'nuclear weapons State.' 1 The popular response in New Delhi and throughout most of India was eu-phoric. Wolpert begins in the late nineteenth century with Jinnah’s early life as a provincial country-boy in Karachi and follows him to London where he studied law and became a British barrister. Returning to India in 1896, Jinnah rapidly ascended the dual ladders of Indian law and politics, climbing to the top rung of each. Stanley Wolpert is the author of fourteen books, including A New History of India, now in its seventh edition (2003), and Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (2002). He has taught the history of India and Pakistan at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 1958. Stanley Wolpert is Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA. He is author of Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (OUP, 2006), India, Third Edition (2005), Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (OUP, 2002), Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny (OUP, 1996), Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan (OUP, 1993), Jinnah of Pakistan (OUP, 1984), and Roots of Confrontation in South. A New History Of India by Stanley A. Download it A New History Of India books also available in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format for read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. This fifth edition remains the most readable and illuminating one-volume history of India and brings students up-to-date on current developments.

Stanley Wolpert (December 23, 1927 – February 19, 2019)[1] was an American historian, Indologist, and author on the political and intellectual history of modern India and Pakistan[2][3] and wrote fiction and nonfiction books on the topics. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1959–2002.[4]

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Stanley Albert Wolpert was born on December 23, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York[4] to Russian Jewish parents. While serving as an engineer aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine ship,[5] he arrived in Bombay, India for the first time on February 12, 1948. Upon arriving, he was both fascinated and overwhelmed by the extraordinary outpouring of grief over the death of Mahatma Gandhi—whom he then knew very little about—just two weeks earlier.[6] Atop a hill, he witnessed numerous mourning Indians who were rushing to touch the ashes of Gandhi as the ship on which the urn was placed weighed anchor to scatter a portion of his ashes into the water below.[6] On returning home, he abandoned his career in marine engineering for the study of Indian history.[6][7][8][9] He received a B.A. from City College in 1953,[4] and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and 1959.[2][4] with a dissertation (published as Tilak and Gokhale)[8] on the revolutionary and reform wings of the Indian National Congress.[6] The dissertation was one of the two books selected for the now discontinued biennial Watumull Prize of the American Historical Association in 1962, a prize recognizing 'the best book on the history of India originally published in the United States.'[10]

Career[edit]

Wolpert began his academic career in 1959, when he took a job as an instructor in the Department of History at UCLA. He was promoted in 1960-63 to assistant professor;[4] 1963-66 associate professor;[4] 1967 full professor.[4] In 1968 he was appointed department chair.[4] He was later an emeritus professor.

Recognition[edit]

In 1975 Wolpert was awarded UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award.[4]

Wolpert was a guest on Connie Martinson Talks Books in 2011, promoting his 2010 book, India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation.'[11][12]

Personal life & death[edit]

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He married to Dorothy Wolpert (née Guberman) on June 12, 1953. They met in an American government class at City College of New York. She went on to become a senior partner in a Century City law firm, and made several visits to India with her husband. They had two sons and three grandchildren.[9] His book Nine Hours to Rama was adapted to a feature film in 1963. Wolpert died on February 19, 2019.

Bibliography[edit]

Jinnah of Pakistan[edit]

Among Wolpert's famed works is Jinnah of Pakistan (1982), a biography compiled on Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan. Wolpert described his subject as:

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

The book is regarded as one of the best biographical books on the life of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-independence Phase[edit]

Wolpert served as editor alongside Richard Sisson of the volume of papers presented at the University of California, Los Angeles March 1984 international conference on the pre Independent phase of the Indian National Congress and published by the University of California Press.[13][14][15][16][17]

Participating scholars in the conference include Dilip K. Basu, Judith M. Brown, Basudev Chatterji, Walter Huser, Stephen Northrup Hay, Eugene Irschick, Raghavan Iyer, D. A. Low, James Manor, Claude Markovits, John R. McLane, Thomas R. Metcalf, W. H. Morris Jones, V. A. Narain, Norman D. Palmer, Gyanendra Pandey, Bimal Prasad, Barbara N. Ramusack, Rajat Kanta Ray, Peter Reeves, Damodar Sardesai, Sumit Sarkar, Lawrence L. Shrader, William Vanderbok and Eleanor Zelliot.[13]

Gandhi's Passion: The Life and the Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi[edit]

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Published in 2001, Gandhi's Passion is a biography of Mahatma Gandhi. Delhi University historian Shahid Amin in his review for the Outlook, called it an 'empathetic and meticulous biography'. He observed, 'Wolpert's attempt is to demonstrate through a close reading of Gandhi's own voluminous writings the unique combination of yogic tapas and Christian passion (the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross') that the Mahatma embodied in his body-polity.'[18] The biography was severely criticised by columnist Swapan Dasgupta, who wrote in India Today, 'Wolpert's biography is not the work of a professional historian.... it is essentially a sympathetic assessment, a study of Gandhi the saint that only tangentially — and with some glaring factual inaccuracies (like describing the Jallianwala Bagh meeting in Amritsar as a gathering of peasants 'celebrating their spring harvest') and sweeping over-generalisations takes into account the environment he operated in.

That is not surprising because Wolpert approached the project less as a scholar and more as a polemicist. His study was prompted by his grave disquiet at the May 1998 Pokhran blasts, particularly his 'amazement' that 'hardly any Indian voices were raised against so complete a departure from everything Mahatma Gandhi believed in and had tried to teach throughout his mature life'. An Indophile angst at the disappearance of a mythical 'eternal India' is articulated through a celebration of Gandhi's piety.'[19]

Pankaj Mishra, in his review for The New York Times, described it as a 'somewhat perfunctory biography'. He wrote, 'the best that can be said about Wolpert's book is that while it tells you nothing about Gandhi that hasn't been said before, it doesn't oversimplify its subject.' Further adding, 'Wolpert mentions Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela as having drawn inspiration from Gandhi's methods. Disappointingly, he doesn't go into the manifold ways Gandhi's distrust of modernity has found echoes among many political and environmental movements around the world.'[20] Diplomat and author, Shashi Tharoor in his review for The Washington Post called it ' a smooth, highly readable but flawed book.' He added, 'Wolpert's narrative is rather bloodless; the characters on its pages are largely just names, with little physical description, social background or political context provided. Two skimpy chapters on Gandhi's legacy are all that justify the book's subtitle.... the book is riddled with minor errors unworthy of a historian of Wolpert's eminence, ranging from the description of Ahmedabad in 1887 as the capital of Gujarat, a state that did not come into existence till the 1950s, to placing the British Viceroy in 1925 in Calcutta, though British India had moved its capital to Delhi in 1911.... Wolpert gives us the saint, but the shrewd politician is little in evidence in this book. And yet Wolpert gets all the essentials right, and he does so in lucid and lively prose.'[21]

Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India[edit]

Published in 2006, Shameful Flight is a chronological study of the last days of the British Empirein India from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Jammu and Kashmir war of 1947-48.[22][23]

Columnist Swapan Dasgupta in his review for The Times Of India criticised Wolpert's 'central argument' for mirroring 'the misgivings of the relics of the pre-War Conservative Party to the management of decolonization.' Yet, he refused to lump him with the Tory 'revisionist' historians such as Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson and called his central thesis 'intriguing'. He observed, 'The problem is that Wolpert's own narrative doesn't justify singling out Mountbatten for all the opprobrium'. Furthermore, 'On Wolpert's suggestion that a united, independentBengal would have prevented the tragedy in the east ignores cruel ground realities'.[24]

Publications[edit]

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Non-fiction[edit]

  • Tilak and Gokhale : Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India (1962)
  • Morley and India, 1906-1910 (1967)
  • A New History of India (1977, 1982, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2008)
  • Roots of Confrontation in South Asia : Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the Superpowers (1982)
  • Jinnah of Pakistan (1984)
  • Congress and Indian Nationalism : The Pre-Independence Phase (co-edited with Richard Sisson) (1988)
  • India (1991)
  • Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times (1993)
  • Nehru : A Tryst With Destiny (1996)
  • Gandhi's Passion : The Life and the Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (2001)
  • Encyclopedia of India (editor) (2005)
  • Shameful Flight:The Last Years of British Empire in India (2006)
  • India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation (2010)

Fiction[edit]

  • Aboard the Flying Swan (1954)
  • Nine Hours to Rama (1962)
  • The Expedition: A Novel (1967)
  • An Error of Judgment (1970)

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References[edit]

  1. ^Stanley Wolpert (1927-2019)
  2. ^ abDr. Stanley Wolpert's UCLA Faculty homepage 'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2012-10-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^'UCLA History'. www.history.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  4. ^ abcdefghiProfessor Stanley Wolpert's academic career and short biography http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/vz/kt400005vz/files/kt400005vz.pdf
  5. ^2005 UCLA International Institute blog reporting on the publication of Wolpert's 2002 book, Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhihttp://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=30808Archived September 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ abcd1997 UCLA Today article on Wolpert's academic background 'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-01-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^Wolpert, Stanley (2001). Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. Oxford University Press. pp. vii
  8. ^ ab1997 interview with Stanley Wolpert http://www.rediff.com/news/mar/01nehru.htm
  9. ^ abLong, Roger D. (editor) (2004).Charisma and Commitment in South Asian History: Essays presented to Stanley Wolpert. pp. 6-35.
  10. ^'Discontinued Awards: Watumull Prize (1946–1982)'. American Historical Association. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  11. ^Stanley Wolpert appears on 'Connie Martinson Talks Books' (part I) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9vgYE_A2M
  12. ^Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ5YtX8wjt4
  13. ^ abSisson, Richard; Wolpert, Stanley (1 January 1988). Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-independence Phase. University of California Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN978-0-520-06041-8.
  14. ^Masselos, Jim (Summer 1989). 'Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert'. Pacific Affairs. 62 (2): 265–266. doi:10.2307/2760602. JSTOR2760602.
  15. ^Kopf, David (Autumn 1989). 'Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert'. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 20 (2): 340–341. doi:10.2307/204875. JSTOR204875.
  16. ^Hirschmann, Edwin (April 1990). 'Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert'. The American Historical Review. 95 (2): 568–569. doi:10.2307/2163915. JSTOR2163915.
  17. ^Fisher, Michael H. (1988). 'Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert'. Journal of Asian History. 22 (2): 198–199. JSTOR41930730.
  18. ^http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211146 | Shahid Amin's review in Outlook
  19. ^http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010326/books.shtml | Swapan Dasgupta's review in India Today
  20. ^https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/15/reviews/010415.15mishrat.html?_r=2 | Pankaj Mishra's review in The New York Times
  21. ^http://www.indianembassy.org/press/book_india/review/washingtonpost_com%20Revolutionary%20Spirit.htm | Shashi Tharoor's review in The Washington Post
  22. ^Brown, Judith M. (February 2008). 'Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert'. The English Historical Review. 123 (500): 265–266. doi:10.1093/ehr/cem448. JSTOR20108446.
  23. ^Talbot, Ian (September 2007). 'Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert'. The International History Review. 29 (3): 670–671. JSTOR40110902.
  24. ^http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/book-mark/Operation-Scuttle/articleshow/911827.cms | Swapan Dasgupta's review of Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India in The Times Of India

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