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Kazi Ahmad Hussain: an unsung hero of the Indian freedom struggle

Saquib Salim Jugantar was the pioneering Indian revolutionaries group during the freedom struggle. With revolutionaries like Bagha Jatin, Aurobindo Ghosh, and Barindra Ghosh as its founders, the group started a bomb-culture in the fight against the British colonialists. A Slice Of History Jugantar was a far-right Hindu group and people believed there was no space for Muslims in its ranks. This is incorrect. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ...

R. G. Kar Hospital case: 34 years ago, Left stronghold saw gangrape-murder of a WHO officer

Saquib Salim The rape and murder of a doctor at R. G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata has shocked the nation. Women are asking if they are not safe at their workplaces. The left parties, led by CPI-M, along with the BJP are leading the charge of protests against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal Government. The Left is claiming that women are unsafe in West Bengal as compared to decades of left rule in the state. Interestingly, in 19...

Khwaja Hasan Nizami used Sri Krishna's story to unite Indians

Saquib Salim “In the greatness of Sri Krishna, lies the greatness of India. The belief that Sri Krishna was an avatar and author of the Gita, brings honourto the Indians. Don’t try to damage his position.” Khwaja Hasan Nizami, an Islamic scholar from pre-partition India, wrote these words in his famous Urdu book Krishna Katha, a biography of Lord Sri Krishna. 75 years after gaining independence from the colonial ...

Muslim women soldiers of INA irked British as well as Muslim League

Saquib Salim If one has to point out one thing that hurt the British Empire most in India, it has to be the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh unity with women fighting against the imperial crown a close second. The fear was not unfounded. In 1857, this was a united effort of Hindus and Muslims, where women like Rani of Jhansi and Begum Hazrat Mahal played important roles, which shook up the foundation of the empire in India. A Slice Of History ...

Muslims were against the Partition of India

Saquib Salim The Partition of India in 1947 and the creation of Pakistan (which was further bifurcated to create Bangladesh) have been largely projected by historians as a Muslim demand. The British Government applied the ‘Divide and Rule’ policy to control India through their agents from different communities. From the late 1930s, they projected Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Muslim League as the sole representative of the Indian...

Yusuf Meherally: architect of the Quit India Movement

Saquib Salim "If Meherally had lived nobody knew what he could have done. Even in his earlier days his name was uttered only after the names of Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose… I do not know about others, but to me Yusuf's dedicated life will ever remain an inspiration, only next to Gandhiji's.” Jaya Prakash Narayan said this after the death of Yusuf Meherally, the youngest mayor of Mumbai and architect o...

Allama Shibli Nomani should be celebrated as freedom fighter

Saquib Salim The Intelligence Department of the British in India reported on 2 November 1912, “Self-styled (Muslim) politicians like Maulana Shibli - however, would merge Muhammadans in the Hindu majority, and they have come to be so fascinated by the idea, that, to gain their object, they do not hesitate even to deny the truth of historical events…. These words, comments the Millat, emanate from a person who claims...

T. A. K. Shervani: a forgotten comrade of Jawaharlal Nehru

Saquib Salim The Daily report of the Commissioner of Police, Bombay on 28 December 1931 reads, “On receipt of the news of the arrest of Pandit Jawaharlal, T.A.K.Shervani and Khan Abdul Gaffar on the 26th a partial hartal was observed in the city.” People across the Indian subcontinent are familiar with the names of Jawaharlal and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan but not with T.A.K. Shervani. Unsung Heroes of Freedom Strug...

Abdul Bari: a tall freedom fighter from Bihar remains unsung

Saquib Salim “Mr. Bari is an old friend of mine and in the Congres, we have been working along the same lines ever since the Swaraj Party days (1922). Moreover, I have great regard for his character. He is bold, upright, honest, fearless, and self-sacrificing and has a truly non-communal and non-provincial mentality. That such a person should espouse the cause of Jamshedpur labour was a great gain for the latter.” Subhas Chandr...

Ali Karim led the revolutionaries at Patna in 1857

Saquib Salim “If this question be put to any intelligent man (not to any of the faithful), amongst the natives in the Mofussil, "Who can be at the head of the conspiracy in Patna?" The answer will be, "there is no one else who can dare to be at the head of it, but the Meershahebs (Meer Abdoollah's family) and Moulvie Ali Kareem.” Justin Finch wrote this to the Deputy Magistrate of Barh on 19 July 1857 regardi...

Kifayat Ullah was signatory to fatwa for Non-Cooperation with British

Saquib Salim “I appeal to the Jamiat-ul-Ulema, the old representative organisation of the Ulemas or the Muslim divines of India led by that distinguished patriot and leader Mufti Kifayat Ullah….. if all these organisations join in this struggle the day of India’s liberation will be drawn nearer.” Subhas Chandra Bose said this in his radio broadcast from Germany on 31 August 1942. Unsung Heroes of Freedom Strugg...

Bakhshish Ali led the revolt of 1857 in Jhansi

Saquib Salim “All disaffected and mutinous men that go to Jhansee are kept by the Ranee; Bukshishalli (Bakhshish Ali) the late Daroga of Jhansee who was at the bottom of the whole mutiny at the place, with about 50 sowars and as many footmen (all mutineers) has taken refuge with the lady. The brother and the whole family of this Daioga have been for some time protected by the Ranee.” This was reported to the British officials o...

Sharif Shaik led salt satyagraha much before Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March

Saquib Salim Salt Satyagraha, or Dandi March, is considered one of the biggest mass agitations led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) against the British colonial empire in India. Gandhi turned the resistance to tax imposition of salt into a mass movement. The idea of turning anti-salt tax agitation into a mass movement was not a novel one. In 1844, Surat had witnessed a similar agitation and the British government had to b...

INA spies hanged by the British remain unknown

Saquib Salim “Spies Landed By Parachute in India: Three Indians Executed: Two Madrasis Also Pay Extreme Penalty” This was the headline of a newspaper report published on 27 August 1944. Speaking of the Azad Hind Fauj, or the Indian National Army (INA), we often limit our discussion to Subhas Chandra Bose and the court trials of its officers. The INA was a developed army and thousands of its soldiers laid ...

Capt Mohammad Akram was one of the first martyrs of INA

Saquib Salim “The Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) was formed at Jitra and Captain Mohan Singh was styled General Officer Commanding (G.O.C.). For the first time in its history, the sky rents with the shouts of ‘Azad Hindustan Zindabad' and 'Azad Hind Fauj Zindabad’. Captain Mohd. Akram Khan and Jamadar Sadhu Singh were the first to join the I.N.A. They came to Alor Star on the 15th Jan. 1942.” Unsu...

Haji of Turangzai: Forgotten revolutionary whose campaign inspired Frontier Gandhi

Saquib Salim In May 1930, the United Press reported, “Mobile squadrons of British troops and bombing squadrons advanced today to attack the Afghan tribal leader Haji Turangzai who was encamped with his troops near Peshawar.” Unsung Heroes of Freedom Struggle In August of the same year, it reported, “The Indian frontier was menaced by the greatest invasion in years today as thousands of wild Afghan tribesmen gather...

Umar Sobhani supplied yarn from his mill for Gandhi's swadeshi movement

Saquib Salim “He (Mahatma Gandhi) said that while he did not think that Umar Sobhani was a revolutionary, he was frank and open by nature and he (Gandhi) thought that if Umar felt convinced that a revolution was the best way to secure the well-being of India, he would not hesitate to adopt such methods. He thought that in such a case Umar Sobhani would plainly tell him (Gandhi) of his intentions…” This is what Mahatma Ga...

Walidad Khan: A Forgotten Hero of 1857 war of Independence

Saquib Salim “At this time (second or third week of May 1857) Walidad returned from Delhi to Malagarh (in Bulandshahr) by way of Dadri and Sikandrabad. That rebel (Walidad Khan) and the Gujars of Dadri, and Bishan Singh and Bhagwant Singh, and Umrao Singh, etc. meeting together, plotted the destruction of the Government; the Gujars from this ....” This statement was recorded by Vakil Shivbans Rai in Bulandshahr (Uttar Prade...

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What sets apart the poetry of Gauhar Raza?

Saquib Salim Gauhar Raza holds a special place in Urdu literature on two unrelated accounts. First, arguably he is the second Indian scientist after Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar who has published a collection of Urdu poetry. Incidentally, Raza served at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of which Bhatnagar was the founding Chairperson. After reading his third collection of poetry, Gawahi, I realised that there is more ...

Mirzapur should be remembered for revolutionary Jhuri Singh

Saquib Salim Mirzapur, a district in Uttar Pradesh, is all over the news because of a web series of the same name streaming on an OTT platform. In this, the place has been portrayed as a center of political violence. This seems far off from another reality of Mirzapur that it was one of the important centers of the first war of national independence in 1857. Jhuri Singh was one of the revolutionaries who fought valiantly against ...

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