Both these books are different;while Satanic verses is a novel, the Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence is a historical work ; Hence they differ from each other, but they have one thing in common; both are marred by controversies.They have created a different impact on the respective authors; while the former had posed a threat on the life of its author, the latter has caused the eclipse of the political career of its author.

Satanic verses:

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The book relied upon the life history of Muhammad and based on the real life characters like Amitabh Bachchan and a lit bit of Rama Rao.No sooner the book was published and released in the year 1988, than it fell like an atomic bomb in the Islamic world causing devastating consequences.The theme of the book was considered as blasphemes against the teachings of Prophet. In Pakistan a riot was broken out against the book. In the year 1989,in Iran, the then temporal ruler Ayatollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa against Salman Rushdie to kill him.Though Khomeini was dead still the Fatwa is in force because, a Fatwa can be withdrawn or revised only by the person who issued it. In India, respecting the opinion of the Muslim people, the book was banned.

However, unmindful of the consequences of the Fatwa and the violent reaction against the book in the Islamic world, Salman Rushdie took asylum in England. The book was even considered for the Booker Prize and it received many other rewards.

But true to its title, Satanic Verses caused a lot of bloodshed, leading to the death of many people by mass murders who were involved in the publishing and selling the book.

Jinnah : India-Partition-Independence :

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It is a recent book written and published by the veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh. Some of the contents of the book are controversial. For example, it eulogized Pakistan’s Jinnah ignoring the fact that he was the prime mover and largely responsible for the partition of India. Besides, adding insult to the injury, the book has also undermined the role of Sardar Vallabai Patel, the first home minister of India, who was primarily responsible for the integration of various princely states into the Dominion of India.

Hence the book evoked an instant furor among the BJP leaders; they met in Simla and expelled Jaswant Singh even from the primary membership of the BJP unable to brook the controversial remarks contained in the book against Jinnah and Sardar Vallabhai Patel;BJP leaders have considered it as a violation of their party ideology and discipline.The expulsion move was supported by the BJP president as well as by other senior leaders of the BJP including L.K.Advani; the RSS has also supported this move.

Gujarat government, headed by Narendra Modi of BJP, has banned the book from selling or circulating in any form of it.

Even though both Satanic verses and Jinnah : India-Partition-Independence are controversial works, while the former has caused the death of many precious lives including a life threat on Salman Rushdie, the latter work though did not cause any loss of lives, it has seriously undermined the political career of a person who was one of the founder member of the BJP and associated with it for more than 30 years.It has also seriously affected the future of BJP.

Finally a word about Jinnah: He not only partitioned India but also partitioned BJP!