Ahrar Party (India)
Ahrar Party | |
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| Founder | Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari , Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi |
| Founded | 29 December 1929 |
| Ideology | Khatme Nabuwwat Islamism |
| Colors | Red, white, black |
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| http://Ahrarindia.com | |
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The Ahrar Party known as the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and Majlis-E-Ahrar Islam Hind is a political party, founded in India in 29 December 1929. The group was composed of Indian Muslims disillusioned by the Khilafat Movement, which cleaved closer to the Congress Party.[1] The party was based in Punjab. It gathered support from the urban lower-middle class. Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi and Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari were the leader of the party.[2]
The Ahrar Party also served as a type of Muslim self-defense militia against Hindu paramilitaries.[1]
Ahrar opposed the Partition of India. After 1947, it separated into the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, based in Lahore and led by descendants of Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, and the Majlis-E-Ahrar Islam Hind, based in Ludhiana and led by descendants of Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi.
List of party leaders
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, founder, 1st president
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq, co-founder, 2nd president, Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1934-1942
- Maulana Mazhar Ali Azhar, co-founder, secretary General, Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1934-1942
- Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi, third President, 1942-1944
- Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri
- Janbaz Mirza, official ahrar historian
References
- 1 2 Christophe Jaffrelot. A history of Pakistan and its origins. Anthem Press, 2004. p. 243. ISBN 1-84331-149-6, ISBN 978-1-84331-149-2
- ↑ Ahmad, Syed N. Origins of Muslim consciousness in India: a world-system perspective. New York u.a: Greenwood Press, 1991. p. 175
Further reading
- Copland, Ian (1981), "Islam and Political Mobilization in Kashmir, 1931-34", Pacific Affairs, 54 (2): 228–259, JSTOR 2757363
- Copland, Ian (2005), State, Community and Neighbourhood in Princely India, c. 1900–1950, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0230005985
- Jalal, Ayesha (2002), Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850, Routledge, pp. 293–294, 356–366, 447–450, ISBN 978-1-134-59937-0