Mahatma Gandhi wanted to spend August 15, 1947, the first day of freedom, in breakaway Pakistan rather than in India, says a new book ‘Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle new book ‘Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s Islam’ Against Jinnah’s Islam’ by former Union minister M J Akbar. According to the author, Gandhi's immediate concern after independence was the fate of partition's principal victims, the minorities: Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India. Whether in South Africa or India, for over half of a century till the end of his public career in 1948.
