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Sir Sultan Ahmed fought for united India risking his own life

Recently Sultan Palace of Patna has been in the news for the very same reason. The Bihar Government wants to demolish it while the people of Patna want to save this heritage building. For most of them, it is an issue concerning a heritage building but it is much more than that.

Sultan Palace was built by Sir Sultan Ahmed almost a century ago. Sir Sultan Ahmed is mostly remembered as a jurist and educationist but very few in India remember him as a person who campaigned against the partition and put his life in danger to keep India united.

Yes, you read it correctly. On 27 October, 1947, Sultan Ahmed was held hostage at his official residence in Hyderabad by 30,000 Razakars of Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen led by Qasim Rizvi, the leader of Razakars. Wielding swords this huge band of Razakars took an army battalion led by Brigadier Gilbert to stop. 

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Syed Abul Hassan, A Great Nationalist Leader

He participated in the Khilafat movement and served as the president of the Bhagalpur District Khilafat Committee. He organised Khilafat meetings and collected Turkish relief fund. He also took part in the Non-cooperation movement.

In his welcome address at Bihar Provincial conference at Bhagalpur on 28th August, 1920, he stressed the need of national unity for the success of Non-cooperation movement against the British Government. He was ardent believer of Hindu-Muslim unity and communal peace. He was a man of broad outlook and secular character.

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, A Luminous Mind – By, Jawaharlal Nehru

He was a peculiar and a very special representative in a high degree of that great composite culture that has gradually grown in India. I do not mean to say that everybody has to be like Maulana Azad to represent that composite culture. There are many representatives of it in various parts of India, but he here in Delhi or in Bengal or Calcutta, wherever he spent the greater part of his life-represented this synthesis of various cultures which have come one after another to India, rivers that had flowed in and lost themselves in the ocean of Indian life, India’s humanity affecting them, changing them and being changed themselves by them.

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What Did Maulana Azad Really Think About Pakistan and Jinnah?

Often, different quotes from Maulana Azad are cherry picked by people on social media according to their political convenience without ever realizing the context. I am sharing his address from 17 April, 1946, where he talked about the idea of Pakistan in detail. Excerpts from this speech are often cherry picked to prove points entirely unrelated to the context. I hope the speech will clear many misconceptions regarding Azad’s views.

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Shahrukh Khan’s father Meer Taj Mohammad write about a martyr freedom fighter

Shahrukh Khan’s father Meer Taj Mohammad wrote that Hari Kishan was the brother of Bhagat Ram who, in the grab of Rahmat Khan, escorted Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose from Calcutta to Kabul vin the Khyber Pass, eluding Birtish Intelligence. Bhagat Ram being a Pathan, did not have much difficulty in impersonating as a ‘Maulvi’ and he took Netaji with him in the guise of Zainuddin, his dumb elder brother going on a pilgrimage to a sacred tomb in Afghanistan.