Maulana Azad was a peculiar and very special representative in a high degree of that great composite culture which has gradually grown in India. There are many representatives of it in various parts of India; but he, in his own venue, here in Delhi or in Bengal or Calcutta, where he spent the greater part of his life, represented this synthesis of various cultures which have come one after another to India, rivers that had flowed in and lost themselves in the ...
