jinnah, same way. jinnah had been fighting for recognition for years and years and all of a sudden once he started promoting pakistan, hundreds of thousands people would come to his rallies and he was surrounded by guards waving swords in uniform and he loved it. he actually loved it. he counted every little ribbon on his uniform. spent most of the summer when these death squads were forming sort of working out with the flags would look like they would use on independence day and so on. kind of pomp and circumstance up with was what he wanted when he was there. you do have to worry. if you are a leader you have a responsibility. you can't just sort of let this stuff ago. >> friend of norwich. two quick things. what i thought was fascinating about how the normal indian folk, the muslim it is the to leave. i would be interesting to get insight into why that is such a deep feeling of unity instead of separation? secondly the flipside of what really happens speculative have the two leaders been mor religio

know, no muslims really believe jinnah was a true -- it's interesting, in some of these local elections, muslim league organizers would go out and try to get votes. one of them, i found a letter one of them wrote back to headquarters and said it's great these people, they think jinnah is this long bearded imam who is very religious, spouts the quran or this or that. they had never seen them. they were able to manipulate ordinary -- >> let's go back to the audience, please. >> you mentioned that one of the major flaws, if not the major flaw, the british will of the partition was to execute quickly and left a lot of details on done. any other major flaws in hindsight now that -- >> there were a bunch. i will say that i am less critical of the british than many writers are. partly because i feel like the indians and the pakistanis wanted independence. they had been asking for for years. the responsibility was theirs to prepare for it with wants it influence over these death squads. they were not ordering it themselves, but at lower levels of the parties people were involved in procuring we