INDIA AND PAKISTAN IN THE MEMOIRS OF ZEKİ VELİDİ TOGAN [ZEKİ VELİDÎ TOGAN’IN HÂTIRALAR’INDA HİNDİSTAN VE PAKİSTAN]

The memoirs are indispensable sources for the study of political history especially if they are written by a person whose life is as energetic as his writings. Ahmet Zeki Velidî Togan (1890-1970)'s memoirs may shed light on the study of the twentieth century. One of the interesting parts of Togan's memoirs is related to his visits to India and Pakistan. As a highly esteemed Turkish historian and statesman, he got the chance of meeting The Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) and Iskandar Mirza (1899-1969), the President of Pakistan. In his memoirs he draws his reader's attention to Muhammad Iqbal's love of Rumi's Turkey and to the poems of a Zîbunnisâ (1638-1702), daughter of the Mughal Pâdishâh Awrangzîb (1658-1707).