Shaukat Ali (freedom fighter)
Shaukat Ali | |
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Khilafat movement | |
Parent(s) | Abdul Ali Khan(father) Abadi Bano Begum (mother) affectionately known as Halima II (1852- 13 November 1924) |
Relatives | Mohammad Ali Jauhar (brother) |
Shaukat Ali (10 March 1873– 26 November 1938; Urdu: مولانا شوكت علي) was an
Early life
Shaukat Ali was born in 1873 into a Pathan family of ancestral Yousafzai origin, Rampur state in what is today Uttar Pradesh in India but later played role in partition of India on religious lines. He was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University. He was extremely fond of playing cricket, captaining the university team.[2]
Ali served in the
Khilafat movement
Shaukat Ali helped his younger brother
Though he is widely known as an advocate of non-violence in the struggle against the British colonialists, he supplied guns to Indian revolutionaries like Sachindra Nath Sanyal.[3]
Nehru report
While still a supporter of Congress and its non-violent ethos, Ali even surpassed some of his colleagues in also providing support to the revolutionary independence movement. To this end, he supplied guns to
He opposed the 1928 Nehru Report. Instead, he demanded separate electorates for Muslims and finally the Khilafat Committee rejected the Nehru Report. Shaukat Ali attended the first and second Round Table Conferences (India) in London in 1930-31. His brother Jouhar died in 1931, and Shaukat Ali continued on and organized the World Muslim Conference in Jerusalem.
In 1936, Ali became a member of the
Death and legacy
Shaukat Ali died on 26 November 1938 at the residence of Begum Mohammad Ali Jauhar, the widow of his brother, in Karol Bagh, a neighbourhood in Delhi. His body was buried near Jama Masjid, mina bazar in Shaukat Ali Masjid, Delhi on 26 November 1938.[5]
Commemorative postage stamp
Roads
A street in Mumbai (formerly Grant Road) is named after him.[citation needed] A road in Lahore is also named after him.[6] A road in Rampur, UP named after him (Shaukat Ali Rd)
References
- ^ a b c d e "Profile of Shaukat Ali (politician) Maulana Shaukat Ali". storyofpakistan.com website. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Maulana Shaukat Ali's commemorative postage stamp issued by the Pakistan Postal Services in its 'Pioneers of Freedom' series (1995)". paknetmag.com website. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- JSTOR 3517065.
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- ^ "Country Mourns For Maulana Shaukat Ali". The Indian Express. 29 November 1938. p. 2 (Archived on GoogleNews). Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ Hasnain, Khalid (27 June 2021). "Signal-free Maulana Shaukat Ali Road project gets govt nod". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
External links
Media related to Maulana Shaukat Ali at Wikimedia Commons