Exploring lesser known History
Shah Wajihuddin Minhaji has left a diary, Meri Tamanna, containing all these details. On February 1936, he noted in his diary, “meri tamanna hai k maadar e watan ki urban gah par meri jan qurban ho jaaye” I wish I could sacrifice my life for my motherland.
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[The court martial of Bahadur Shah Zafar sat for the last time on 9 March, (1858) and at 11 a.m.,
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If I tell you that the famous Urdu poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a supporter of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh and fought a legal battle for the great Indian revolutionary will you believe ? You should. Because, it is true.
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Mirza Ismail, a Shia Muslim by faith, who was the Prime Minister of Mysore had spoken these words at the inauguration of Jamia Mosque, a Sunni mosque, in Bengaluru on 30 May 1941.
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The Mahdawi movement relates to the arrival of the Messiah or Mehdi. Several people claimed to be the Mehdi throughout Islamic history.
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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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Maulana Imdad Sabri was one of the most ardent followers and a comrade of Subhas Chandra Bose. He remained in Congress and held important positions until Netaji was in Congress.
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The situation at Dunkirk in 1940 was extremely out of bounds for the British Army. Hundreds of thousands of men struggled to escape France, as the Luftwaffe swirled overhead. The Germans had advanced with terrifying speed, covering over a hundred and twenty miles in just five days. The Germans were employing the technique of Blitzkrieg.
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Gandhi and Ambedkar are India’s most popular thinkers, and also the most romanticised ones. While Gandhi is called the “father of India”, Ambedkar is called the father of the text that makes India a democracy (on paper), the Constitution. People often worship these figures, but usually do not read, thus begins the saga of romanticisation.
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Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi Amrohvi (1930-1987) left his indelible imprints in the sphere of art and literature. An incredibly celebrated painter and poet.
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Maulvi Abdur Rasul, who actively participated in the movement opposing the division of Bengal, was born in 1872.
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Ehsan Danish and Makhdoom Mohiuddin – A juncture of love, literature and struggle.
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Dr Jawaharlal Rohatgi, A Doctor who spent nine years in jail but never gave up his Medical Practice
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Under Netaji Bose, the INA’s motto of Ittefaq (Unity), Itmad (Faith), and Kurbani (Sacrifice) no doubt preferred Hindustani words of Persio-Arabic extraction, but the invocation of spiritually-charged terms such as “faith” and “sacrifice” remained.”
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People welcomed him, and his family, as a pilgrim coming back from one of the most sacred places of Islam. While in fact, he did not plan to visit Makkah and Medina.
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Prof Mushirul Hasan, one of the greatest historians of Modern India and an institution builder.
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The life and works of Mr. Syed Raza Imam of Chapra. An active participant in the social and political movements of his time, he made effective contributions to them.
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Following is an excerpt of the trial of Maulana Shaukat Ali at Karachi Court in September, 1929
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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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