Indian politician and writer (1888–1958)
India remembers him as the youngest president of the Indian National Congress and the architect of its education system after independence. But Azad reached that desk through journalism that enraged the British, organizing mass disobedience alongside Gandhi, and years arguing that Hindu-Muslim unity was the only road to freedom.
Born in 1888, Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin wrote poetry and religious treatises before turning to journalism that attacked colonial rule and caught Mahatma Gandhi's attention during the Khilafat Movement. He threw himself into non-violent resistance after the 1919 Rowlatt Acts, promoted Swadeshi products and Swaraj, and in 1923 became Congress president at 35 — the youngest ever. He helped found Jamia Millia Islamia in 1920 and moved it to New Delhi in 1934, organized the Dharasana Satyagraha in 1931, and spent the war years imprisoned with the Congress leadership after the Quit India rebellio…
Sourced, dated quotes from Abul Kalam Azad
I am a Musalman 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.
Islam does not command narrowmindedness and racial and religious prejudice.
... Full eleven centuries have passed by since then. Islam has now as great a claim on the soil of India as Hinduism.
[They] would not oppose Gandhiji even when they were not fully convinced, ...were generally content to follow Gandhiji’s lead....
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