Publication

2014 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

81,250 words, Guess

Page Count

325 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Better World Books9780199450466
  • Better World BooksT3-AFA-791
  • Open LibraryOL28794652M

Classifications

  • LCCDS481.A9H36 2014
  • LCCDS481.A9 H36 2014

Description

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.

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