The Legacy of Shaik Ghalib Saheb, Social Reformer & Freedom Fighter
The life and legacy of Shaik Ghalib Saheb, champion of freedom and interfaith harmony. A freedom fighter who built bridges, not walls.
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Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi: whom British saw as the most ‘dangerous’ among the Indian revolutionaries of that time
Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi: whom British saw as the most ‘dangerous’ among the Indian revolutionaries of that time.
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Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi :- A Great Freedom Fighter who fought against the British Empire.
The family says that when in 1931, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had hoisted the Indian Tricolour on the banks of Raavi river for the first time, at the same time, Maulana Ludhianvi hoisted the same flag at Sahi Jama Masjid in Ludhiana in the presence of over 300 British policemen and was arrested.
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Dr Makhdoom Mohiuddin: Great Freedom Fighter, Urdu Poet, and Workers’ Champion
The man who wrote Freedom, Dr Makhdoom Mohiuddin, his life was a tapestry woven with the threads of freedom fighting, Urdu poetry, and labor activism
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Freedom’s Flame in Rural India: The Untold Story of Mohammad Ghouse Baig
Mohammad Ghouse Baig was arrested for participating in the Civil disobedience movement. The British government seized his properties. He and his wife faced several woes for their active role in the Indian National Movement but never lost confidence.
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Maulvi Mohammad Baqir, the first journalist to attain martyrdom for India during the freedom struggle.
On 4 June 1857, Maulvi Muhammad Baqir warned the masses of the conspiracies of the British and appealed to them to remain united.
Maulvi Muhammad Baqir was arrested on 14th September 1857 for revolt and without being tried, he was shot dead on 16 September 1857 by Major William S.R. Hudson.
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Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah Faizabadi: Greatest Hero of the First war of Indian Independence.
Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah Faizabadi, who created panic among the British camps, was born in 1787 in Chennai of the present
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Maghfur Aijazi: A freedom fighter and a builder of Indian democracy
In 1965, Maghfur Aijazi led a movement in the district for the minority character of the AMU, and launched mass demonstrations against the then Union Minister of Education, M C Chagla, in May 1965; and Aijazi urged upon the people to observe 16 July 1965 as the ‘Aligarh Muslim University Day’.
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