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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (Urdu: جماعتِ اسلامی ہند, abbreviated as JIH) is an Islamic organisation in India, [1] founded as an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which split into separate independent organisations in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh following the Partition of India in 1947. Islam is the ideology of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
Mosques in Kolkata refers to mosques in the city of Kolkata, India. Kolkata is the capital city of West Bengal, a state in the eastern part of India. The city is more than 300 years old (as Kolkata) and was the capital of British India till early 1911. Kolkata hosts many churches, temples and mosques, along with other religious places.
Mohammed Ali Qamar is a first Bengali Indian to win a gold medal in Commonwealth Games,kolkata. Abu Sayeed Ayyub , Indian philosopher, teacher, literary critic, Kolkata. Farha Khatun is a National Awarded documentary filmmaker , Kolkata
Ghulam Azam (Bengali: গোলাম আযম; 7 November 1922 – 23 October 2014) was a politician and convicted war criminal.He was an Islamist leader in Bangladesh who served as the Ameer of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
A Baghdadi Jewish man contemplates his heritage, late 20th century. The history of the Jews in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, in India, began in the late eighteenth century when adventurous Baghdadi Jewish merchants originally from Aleppo and Baghdad chose to establish themselves permanently in the emerging capital of the British Raj.
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India.
According to the NIA, the Al Jihad module had planned a series of ten blasts in Kolkata during the Durga Puja. [10] A team from Central Forensic Research Laboratory reached the spot on 4 October. They inspected the sand from the detonation site and suspected that the operatives belonged to Indian Mujahideen .
The Parasnath or Parshwanath Jain Temple of Kolkata was built by Ray Badridas Bahadur in 1867. [2] Thousands of people visit this temple annually. The Parasnath Jain Temple is actually a complex of 4 temples. The main shrine is dedicated to Shitalanatha, tenth tirthankara. [3] [4] The pratishtha was performed by Sri Kalyansurishwarji Maharaj. [5]