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Muslims Flourish in India
Dt: 29/8/25
Muslims Flourish in India
Dr T H Chowdary*
1. Presidents :
· Dr. Zakir Hussain (1897-1969)
· Frakhruddin Ali Ahmad(1905-1977).
· Mohammad Hidayatullah (1969)
· Dr APJ Kalam (2002-2007)
2. Chief Justices of Supreme Court :
· Mohammad Hidayatullah
· Aziz Mushabber Ahmad
3. Home Minister, GOI:
· Mufti Mohammad Sayeed 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990
4. Cabinet Secretary:
· Zafar Saifullah (31 July 1993 to 31 July 1994)
5. Chief of Indian Air Force:
· Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM (1978 to 1981)
6. Chief Ministers of Indian States:
· Maharashtra : Abdul Rahaman Antuley (9-6-80 to 12-1-82)
· Rajasthan : Barkatullah Khan (71-73)
· Bihar: Abudl Gafoor (2-7-73 11-04- 75 )
· Assam : Syeda Anwar Taimur ( Dec 198 0 -Juen 1981)
· Kerala : C H Mohammad Koya (12-11-79 to 1-12-79)
· Manipur : Mohammed Alimuddin (1972-73 & 74)
· Pondicherry : M Farock ( Apr -9- 1967 to March 6, 1968)
· J&K : The Abdullah clan and Mehbooba Mufti (2016-18)
7. Vice Presidents:
Mohammad Hidayatullah ( Aug 31, 1979 - 30 Aug 1984)
Md. Hamid Ansari ( 2007 – 2017)
· Telangana Muslim as Home Minister in Dr Chenna Reddy’s & KCR’s Chief Ministership :
· Muslim separatism : Sri Sayed Mohammad in his Meerut speech
· Musim League founded in Dhaka in 1906
· Sir Md. Iqbal as Muslim League President spoke of for separate state in 1930 and reiterated it in 1932 as Muslim League’s President.
· Maulana Md. Ali who called Gandhiji Mahatma during the Khilafat movement 1922-23 and together conducted the Khilafat movement , at its termination publicly called Mr. Gandhiji as inferior : According to my religion and creed, I do hold an adulterous and a fallen Musalman to be better than Mr. Gandhi
· And when he was the President of the Indian National Congress at its Kakinada session in 1923 he objected to the singing of Vandemataram and when it was sung he walked away from the dais to about 200 mtrs of distance.
· In addition to Sri Sayed Md. 1876 and Sir Md. Iqbal’s speech in 1930&32 Md.Ali Jinnah spoke at the Lahore Congress Muslim League session in 1940 for the division of India and creation of Pakistan . He launched he Direct Action against the Aug 1946 from Calcutta.
· In the Noakhali carnage of Hindus in East Bengal in 1946 no nationalist Muslims ever went there to call up on their co-religionists and not to abduct, kill and convert the Hindu minorities there.
· After one year of the Khilafat movement in India , in Malabar of Kerala a Muslim state was declared and thousands of Hindus were killed and tens of thousands were forcibly converted to Islam.
· Muslim population in India in 1951 was about 9% ; today it is about 20%
Sir Md Iqbal’s wrote Tarana -e-Hindi before 1906:
“Saare jahan se acha Hindusitan hamaaraa
Hindi hain ham, Hindi hai ham”
In this he hailed Rama as Imam-e-Hind .
In 1910, four years after the founding of the Muslim League in Dhaka in 1906, he wrote Tarana-e-milli :
“Chin-o-Arab hamaaraa, Hindusitan hamaaraa
Muslim hai ham, Muslim hai ham,
Vatan hai saaraa jaahaan hamaaraa”
(500 words)
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