Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a scholar, intellectual, and nationalist who fought against British imperialists by drawing inspiration from the Koran. Twenty years before the freedom movement took hold in India, the man whom Mohammad Ali Jinnah dismissed as the 'Showboy of Indian National Congress' was already involved in the struggle for independence. This book examines the life of Azad, his solutions to the crisis of Muslims of India, and his role in the independence struggle as a leader of the Indian National Congress.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a scholar, intellectual, and nationalist who fought against British imperialists by drawing inspiration from the Koran. Twenty years before the freedom movement took hold in India, the man whom Mohammad Ali Jinnah dismissed as the 'Showboy of Indian National Congress' was already involved in the struggle for independence. This book examines the life of Azad, his solutions to the crisis of Muslims of India, and his role in the independence struggle as a leader of the Indian National Congress.

Contributed papers presented at a seminar.

Contribution of Abūlkalām Āzād, 1888-1958, Indian statesman in India's freedom struggle.

Papers presented at an international conference organized by the Dept. of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, in collaboration with the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, and funded by UNESCO, 1989.

Chap. 1; AbulKalam Azad: Ancestral legacy: evolution, development and transformation of his ideas on education -- Chap. 2; Nationalism and Indian Nationalism, muslim responses: Azad's philosophy of Nationalism: Early phase and later phase -- Chap. 3;Azad's justification of Nationalism and his contemporaries: Iqbal and Mawdudi -- Chap 4; Azad a Staunch Indian Nationalist -- Chap. 5; Conclusion: Few questions arise.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, commonly remembered as Maulana Azad, was a powerful writer and an equally stimulating orator, whose sway over the Muslim communities was considered a threat by the government which looked for every opportunity to clip his wings and restrain his activities. But Azad took these tribulations gracefully and came to play a very decisive role as a senior leader of the Independence movement. Like his pen-name Azad, which meant free, here was a man who relentlessly strove to remove the shackles of incapacious thinking.