Maulana Azad, Islam and the Indian National Movement

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-945046-6
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Maulana Azad was the first education minister of India and a dynamic individual with multiple facets to his personality. He is equally known as one of the foremost freedom fighters, an Urdu poet who also wrote treatises on philosophy and religion.

Azad had hoped to lead not only the Muslims but all Indians to freedom. From 1903, when he picked up his pen to launch his first journal, till Partition, he never lost sight of his larger constituency-all Indians, regardless of religion. Why then is one who aspired and worked for national leadership remembered only as the leader of the Muslims of India? Why then did he lose to Jinnah, an individual who generally stood for everything which ran contrary to his beliefs? In this thought-provoking
work, Syeda S. Hameed takes a fresh look at the works, politics, and life of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hameed, Syeda Saiyidain

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Syeda Saiyidain Hameed currently serves on the Planning Commission of the Indian Government with responsibilities including health, women and children, and minority rights; and as Chancellor of The Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad.