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In the run-up to 2024, with the pendulum poised between a secular or theocratic state, we need to revisit this forgotten chapter of history

Today, India is experiencing deadly convulsions within the currents of politics of hate. Azad’s words spoken at the 1940 Congress Convention about the ‘joint wealth of Hindu-Muslim ittehad’ are confronted with distorting history via school curriculums and calls for violence against Muslim genocide at ‘Dharam’ Sansads

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi in 1935. | Wikimedia Commons The first time I met Maulana Abul Kalam Azad as a small girl when my father took me to his King Edward Road home in Delhi to wish him for Eid, he left a deep impact on my childish mind. I can still remember him reclining on a sofa with a slim cigarette case on the table, his gentle smile and his reserved manner. I never imagined that I would one day become his biographer and spend almost half my life studying his life and his works.

5800 COULD Mr. Shastri make any exception, consistently with his general position, even in the case of the measures in regard to which he said he was not quite sure if they could be struck off immediately? What was the main argument on which he relied? “The purpose and aim of the Reforms”, he said, “could not be better expounded than in the weighty words addressed to the Council on the inauguration day by the Viceroy than whom no more authoritative exponent of the subject could be conceived. In that address, the Council heard for the first time that the principle of autocracy was defini...