This book discusses the complexity of relations between Hindus and Muslims in India through the latter part of middle ages to the present, in a simple and concise manner. It gives an overview of the political developments post 1857, the Deobandi, Barelvi, Aligarh, Tablighi movements and the Two-nation theory, the formation of Muslim League, the language controversy, the politics of Partition of Bengal, the rise of Hindu groups, the fiasco of Hindu-Muslim Unity, the Pakistan movement, the momentous and tragic events leading to the Partition of India and its aftermath, and finally the tricky political landscape in independent post-1947 India dominated by appeasement politics to the present times.