Hasan has collected essays, extracts, memoirs, and a short story to create an evocative outline of the events preceding and surrounding India's partition.

This book offers a collection of twenty-nine essays by noted scholar of Gandhian studies, BR Nanda. Presenting a composite picture of Gandhi's life and thought, the essays discuss Gandhi's formative years, his struggle against racism, his views on religion and the partition of India, his public life and professional relationships, and his political and economic thought.

First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research.