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His home housed the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies earlier, and is now the Maulana Azad Museum. [48] The National Education Day, an annual observance in India to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who served from 15 August 1947 until his death on ...
Abul Kalam Azad (born March 5, 1947), also known by the nickname Bacchu Razakar, is a former Bangladeshi politician of the Jamaat-e-Islami, televangelist and convicted war criminal of the Bangladesh Liberation War. [1] [2] [3] He was also the leader and founder of one of the "Razakar" paramilitaries, the Kharadia Military. [4]
Prominent independence movement leader and India's first Minister of Education Maulana Abul Kalam Azad declined the honour, arguing that those who were on selection committees for national honours should not themselves receive them. He received a posthumous Bharat Ratna in 1992.
Ghubar-e-Khatir ("The Dust of Memories"), (Urdu: غبار خاطر) is one of the most important works of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, written primarily during 1942 to 1946 when he was imprisoned in Ahmednagar Fort in Maharashtra by the British Raj while he was in Bombay (now Mumbai) to preside over the meeting of All India Congress Working Committee. [1]
Abul Kalam Azad spoke in a new language to them [the Indian Muslim population] in his weekly Al-Hilal. It was not only a new language in thought and approach, even its texture was different, for Azad's style was tense and virile, though a little difficult because of its Persian background. He used new phrases for new ideas and was a definite ...
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a key player in the Indian independence movement, stated in India Wins Freedom that "as a Muslim, I for one am not prepared for a moment to give up my right to treat the whole of India as my domain and share in the shaping of its political and economic life. To me it seems a sure sign of cowardice to give up what is my ...
The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy, is a sports honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Abul Kalam Azad commonly referred to as Maulana Azad, one of the senior leaders of Indian national congress and first Minister of Education in independent India. [1] [2] It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. It ...
Abul Kalam Azad: Delhi (Special Session) [27] 43 December 1924 Mahatma Gandhi: Belgaum [28] 44 April 1925 Sarojini Naidu: Kanpur [27] 45 December 1926 S. Srinivasa Iyengar: Guwahati [27] 46 December 1927 Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari: Madras [27] 47 1928 Motilal Nehru: Calcutta [24] 48 1929 Jawaharlal Nehru: Lahore [27] 49 1930 Karachi [27] 50 1931 ...