The Pity of Partition: Mantos Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide by Ayesha Jalal

It has been a pretty interesting topic for me personally, one which I have wrestled to grasp passionately for some years now. Ayesha's questioning of the reasons for Partition are sound, but she still fails to mention the mention the main reason which most of us Pakistani Punjabis subtly admit, ergo power. Has any minority race managed to hold on to power in any democratic culture of the world? Don't know how Ayesha has failed to mention such a vital reason in her otherwise pretty interesting book. Majority means power and power is the chief reason why Pakistan was backed by Punjabis and Bengalis in 1947 and why Bengal got rid of Punjabis in 1971. Ayesha is quite wrong at citing religion as the main reason for the Partition in 1947, for if it was than 1971 would not have happened. But I do agree with the result of Partition when I compare between Muslims in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It is plainly obvious that Partitioned Pakistani & Bengali Muslims seem to thriving as opposed to the pretty sorry state of Indian Muslims at present. Of course if Partition had not taken place than Muslims could have commanded a different social cadre is pure speculation and a much favoured argument proffered by Muslims of India. 
Ayesha's interpretation of Jinnah's choices for the pursuit of Muslim power in a federally homogenous united India should be taught as curriculum in Pakistan and India as it was Nehru who forced Jinnah to accept the plan C, something he had already rejected publicly twice before. 
But Partition is digressing all the limelight away from the great Munto who in my opinion is a picture of archetypical Pakistani male. What a writer, bold, creative, revolutionary, vibrant, and a dervish all built in one. If only I had a little bit of Munto......