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The role of Muslim clerics in India’s freedom movement has been individually chronicled in the past. Beginning from the first decade of the 19th century to 1947, this book weaves a single narrative to connect all the leading ulemas for the first time. It examines the role of these clerics in attempting to use the idea of jihad as an instrument for combating colonialism in South Asia as far back as 1914. This is remembered as the Silk Letter Movement, which ...
This is a long-awaited book on one of the most enigmatic personalities who helped to shape the idea of India. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, the founder of the Muslim Anglo-Oriental College now known as the Aligarh Muslim University, was what one may call a complete individual - educationist, philanthropist, administrator, leader, and most importantly a self-made man who was, even by today's standards, staunchly secular. It is perhaps ironical that the challenges Sir ...