Hindu-Muslim relations have always been an issue of debate in the history of India. Even as long ago as the era of the Moghuls, there were dissensions between the two religious groups. When the British came to India, they took advantage of the situation and according to their policy of 'Divide and Rule' tried to create differences between the Hindus and the Muslims with the help of the Muslim aristocracy which belonged, by and large, to the foreign stock. However, despite incidents like the partition of Bengal in 1905 and the Bihar riots of 1917, there were communal bonds between the two groups. The efforts of Mahatma Gandhi and others in securing the release of pan-Islamic leaders like the Ali Brothers, Azad and Hasrat Mohani further increased the amity between the two groups. It was after 1921 that the unity between the two groups started to appear as if it had been superficial all along. Communal riots became a recurrent feature. It seemed as if the British had got what they wanted at last. The book consists of a detailed history of Hindu-Muslim relations from 1913 to 1925, a period when these two groups were undergoing drastic transformations in their reaction towards each other.