“It is one of the greatest frauds on the people to suggest that religious affinity can unite areas which are geographically, economically, linguistically and culturally different.”
"I am a Musulman and proud of the fact. Islam’s splendid traditions of thirteen hundred years are my inheritance. I am unwilling to lose even the smallest part of this inheritance.
In addition, I am proud of being an Indian. I am part of that indivisible unity that is Indian nationality. I am indispensable to this noble edifice. Without me this splendid structure of India is incomplete. I am an essential element which has gone to build India. I can never surrender this claim.
*It was India’s historic destiny that many human races and cultures and religions should flow to her. One of the last of these caravans was that of the followers of Islam."--------*Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Re: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad -Roll model for all youngsters in south asia
Bah there is always a crazy mofo inbetween 1 billion people.
Re: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad -Roll model for all youngsters in south asia
No doubt Maulana Azad was an extraordinary man on the Indian panorama.he says stubborn attitude of Nehru was the final blow to the unity of India.1946 Cabinet Mission plan of a federal structure was rejected by Nehru which led to subsequent Domino Effect culminating at partition .Azad also made prophecy about inter-provincial disharmony in pakistan.
Re: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad -Roll model for all youngsters in south asia
Azad was one of the negotiating members during both the Cripps’ mission (1942) and the Cabinet mission (1946). But with the strengthening of the Pakistan movement and worsening Hindu-Muslim relations, Azad’s influence waned. He recorded his frustration in his letters and autobiography, to the effect that the partition of India could have been avoided had the Congress High Command respected his idea about the accommodation of the viewpoints of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League. The Congress High Command was catastrophically wrong, he asserted, when it partially rejected the Cabinet Mission formula, which had been previously accepted by the Muslim League High Command. Azad was emphatically opposed to Jawaharlal Nehru’s view which, according to him, had led to the collapse of the Cabinet Mission Plan and eventually to the partition of India on a communal basis. But the political difference lately developed between the two leaders did not weaken their personal friendship.
Although Azad was highly regarded amongst Congressmen and most nationalists, he did not have the level of popular support amongst the Muslim community enjoyed by Jinnah, and failed to prevent the majority of Muslims from supporting partition. Azad abstained from voting when the All India Congress Committee voted on the partition plan, as he knew that the Congress Party was approving partition only in extreme, almost impossible conditions where the League threatened to instigate civil war and the government faced breakdown before independence.