4 Sep : Call it a ripple effect – not only Jaswant Singh’s Jinnah chronicle is enjoying a “very good sale” in the ongoing Delhi Book Fair but other publications on the Pakistan founder and Partition are on high demand too.
Books on history of Partition and Jinnah have been given a prominent display by many publishers in their stalls.
Due to the “hype” about Singh’s controversial ‘Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence’, there is a renewed interest on the subjects, the publishers say.
A sales officer from Rupa and Co, which published Singh’s book, said the company is enjoying a “very good sale”.The book is in “high demand”, he said adding, along with it, other books on history of Partition are also witnessing increasing demands.
Other than ‘Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence’, Rupa is also offering books like ‘Last Days of British Raj’ and ‘Witness to Partition: A Memoir’ by historian B R Nanda.
Vani Prakashan, which is in the fair with an array of publications in Hindi, has on offer ‘Jinnah: Mohammad Ali se Quaid-e-Azam’, a translation of American historian Stanley Wolpert’s book ‘Jinnah of Pakistan’. Also on display beside it is a translation of Salman Rushdie’s ‘Freedom at Midnight’.