The War of Independence 1857 left the Muslims on the mercy of the British who treated them ruthlessly considering them the wholly and solely responsible for the unsuccessful War. The doors of education were closed to the Muslims and the employments were given to the other communities leaving the Muslims. According to William Hunter, who had been sent by the ...Read More »
Urdu-Hindi controversy 1867 unfolded many unsaid stories for the Muslims of India who were expecting to live in amity with the Hindus and other communities in the long run. Even the Muslims with the moderate views were convinced at last that that Hindus and Muslims could not be friends with each other as they have different religions, rituals, culture and ...Read More »
The Labor Party led by Clement Attlee came into power after the general elections in United Kingdom after the war with Japan ended on August 10, 1945. Attlee sent the Cabinet Mission consisting of A.V. Alexander, Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Pathic Lawrence to India to find out the solution of the problems of India. The Mission reached India on ...Read More »
he Aligarh Muslim University ran five schools under it and Mohammad Anglo Oriental Collegiate School was one of them. Officially called Sayedna Tahir Saifuddin High School (on the name of the then Chancellor of the School), the foundations of M.A.O. School were laid in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan aiming at bringing the Muslims out of the abysmal darkness ...Read More »
Mohammad Ali Jinnah is one of those leaders who changed the course of history and geography at the same time and he was hailed by the Pakistani nation and at the international level at the same time. Born on December 25, 1876 in Kathiawar Gujrat, India, Jinnah had ancestors from Shia, Sunni, Ismaili, and Hindu origin. His father Jinnah Poonja ...Read More »
A remarkable landmark of the history of Indo-Pak is the establishment of Indian National Congress in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912), a retired servant who had a flame to do something for the people of India. Congress owes a lot of homage to A.O. Hume who became friends with the Indians while all his country men were treating the ...Read More »
Allan Octavian Hume raised the voice of the local down trodden people of India and the Indian National Congress (1885) awarded the Indians with awareness of their rights. It compelled the British government to amend the Act of 1861 which could not measure up to scratch of the Indians. The spread of universities sprinkled education in the public and they ...Read More »
Nadva-tul-Ulama of Lucknow was established in 1894 by some government officials with the religious tilt and Maulanas who wanted the heyday of the past back. They also aimed at the unity of the Mulims od India and revival of the Syllabi which had been taught in Islamic Madrassas in the bygone days. The very first session of Nadva-tul-Ulema was held ...Read More »
The history of Indo-Pak is furnished with the persons who thought and worked for the cause of the down trodden Muslims of India. The Muslims under the British Empire were living a dejected life after the unsuccessful War of Independence against the British which brought chastisements on them especially in the key areas of life i.e. education, employment, finance and ...Read More »
The Muslim politicians and intellectuals founded Anjuman-e-Himayat-e Islam on September 24, 1884 in Lahore with the purpose of spreading political, social, and religious awareness among the Muslims of India. Anjuman, also serving as a philanthropic organization along with educational institutions, deserves great homage as it provided remarkable services to defend the Muslims against the religious and cultural onslaughts of Hindus. ...Read More »
