Silk Letter Movement
The Silk Letter Movement ('Tehreek-e-Reshmi Rumal') refers to a movement organised by
Overview
Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari went to Hejaz with Mahmood Hasan in September 1915. He returned to India in April 1916 with Ghalib Nama (Silk Letter) which he showed to freedom fighters in India and the autonomous areas, and then took to Kabul where he arrived in June 1916.[3]
With the onset of
The
The mission's immediate aim was to rally the Amir against
Legacy
In January 2013, The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee released a commemorative postage stamp on the Silk Letter Movement, to commemorate the sacrifices these groups made for the Indian independence movement.[10] Indian author and historian Ela Mishra wrote Reshmi Rumaal Sharyantra: Ek Muslim Kraantikari Aandoloan.[11]
Further reading
- ISBN 978-93-7831-322-6.
References
Citations
- ^ Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics: A Study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918-1924.(Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia). M. Naeem Qureshi. p79,80,81,82
- ^ Sufi Saints and State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843-1947.Sarah F. D. Ansari.p82
- ^ "Silken Letters Movement" (PDF). www.darululoom-deoband.com. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ Ansari 1986, p. 515
- ^ Ansari 1986, p. 514
- ^ Strachan 2001, p. 788
- ^ a b Sims-Williams 1980, p. 120
- ^ Seidt 2001, p. 1,3
- ^ Ansari 1986, p. 516
- ^ "President releases a commemorative postage stamp on 'silk letter movement'". pib.gov.in.
- ^ "रेशमी रुमाल षडयंत्र एक मुस्लीम क्रान्तिकारी आंदोलन". bookganga.com. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
Bibliography
- Ansari, K. H. (1986), "Pan-Islam and the Making of the Early Indian Muslim Socialist", Modern Asian Studies, 20 (3): 509–537, S2CID 145177112.
- Seidt, Hans-Ulrich (2001), "From Palestine to the Caucasus-Oskar Niedermayer and Germany's Middle Eastern Strategy in 1918", German Studies Review, 24 (1): 1–18, JSTOR 1433153.
- Sims-Williams, Ursula (1980), "The Afghan Newspaper Siraj al-Akhbar", British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 7 (2): 118–122, .
- Strachan, Hew (2001), The First World War. Volume I: To Arms, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-926191-1.
- M .E. Yapp, "That Great Mass of Unmixed Mahomedanism": Reflections on the Historical Links between the Middle East and Asia, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1. (1992), pp. 3–15.
- M. Naeem Qureshi, The 'Ulamā' of British India and the Hijrat of 1920, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1. (1979), pp. 41–59.
- Silk Letter Movement (PDF)