In countries that face oppression one can find people possessed of an inner liberty which many of those living in conditions of external freedom have yet to discover.

The Kriegs describe the year that their daughter was addicted as the lowest point of their married life.

Two days after the wedding they sat and looked at each other in an empty room: `Why have we got married? There is nothing to make a life with.'

How did the inhabitants of Sri Lanka, calling themselves Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims, come to believe that `our people' did not comprise all of the people living on the island?

Gandhi has provided a splendid tour de force of aspects of Muslim, mainly political, thinking during a crucial period of the sub-continent's history.