Overview of Maulana Azad, Literary works , contribution to the Education of India.

1. Maulana Azad’s Educational Leadership
By:Sayed Muhammed

2. • Born on 11 November 1888, Makkah
• Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahamed
• Parents: Muhammad Khairuddin (Father)
Alia Muhammad Khairuddin (Mother)
• Spouse : Zulaikha Begum
• President of Indian National Congress in 1923
& in 1940-1946
• First MINISTER OF EDUCATION
15 August 1947 – 2 February 1958
• Passed away on 22 February 1958 (aged 69)
• Awarded Bharat Ratna in 1992(posthumously)

3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Poet
• Philosopher
• Writer
• Educationist
• Politician
• Architect of Indian
education system
• Arabic
• Persian
• Urdu
• English
• Hindi
• Bengali
• A prolific debater
Scholar:
“Maulana Azad’s personality was great. He was not a historical personality, rather a
considerable period of history was inherent in his personality”
-Acharya Kripalani

4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• A Champion of secularism and
national integration.
• Opposed partition of India.
• Chair of 9th UNESCO session held
in Delhi.
• Founder of various
boards,councils,commisions etc.,
• Birthday celebrated as ‘National
Education Day’.
• Vakil
• Zamindar
• Muslim Gazette
• Paisa Akhbar
• Mashrique
• Halel-al-Matin
• Musalmaan
• Al-Hakam
• Al-Haque
• Hamdard
• Comrade(An English Journal)
Journals/Newspapers associated
with Maulana Azad

5. Year Book / Journal Detail
1900 Nairange-Alam Poetic journal continued foreight
months.
1904 Lisan-Us-Sidq Aimed at promoting social reform,
development of Urdu.
1912 Al-Hilal Message of nationalism foreducated
Muslim to a new political sense.
1917 Tazkirah First book of Azad to be published
1931 Tarjuman-Ul-Quran Focused on fundamental unity of all
religion.
1946 Ghubar-E-Khatir Last book by Azad, a collection of
letters which were never published.
1988 India Wins Freedom An exhaustive account of India's
freedom struggle and its leaders.

7. Educational Leadership of Azad
Maulana Azad’s Educational Leadership
is classified into three stages:
i. 1900-1920
ii. 1920-1946
iii. 1947-1958
 His leadership focused attention on the
freedom programme in the Islamic system of
learning India
 The process of his leadership was marked by
the expansion of its scope to the country as a
whole in the most resurgent period of its
history
 Sychronising with his stewardship of the
Education Ministry during the period of over
a decade,he availed of the unique
oppurtunity of setting new national goals for
education of new India

8. • First public assertion Azad made on assuming charge of the
Education Ministry was naturally about transforming the
system of education as inherited from british to suit “our
national requirements”.
• He criticized the then prevailing system as one “shaped by
non-nationals in the non-nationalisitic interests”

9. Maulana Azad’s Ideas on Educational Policies
The four important objectives that Azad promoted as new goals of
Education in post independence India are:
i. Democratisation of
Education
 With a view to liquidating
mass illiteracy, Azad strove
to introduce two important
reform measures in the
country
i. Universalising elementary
education
ii. Launching a nationwide
drive for adult education

10. Maulana Azad’s Ideas on Educational Policies
ii. Maintenance of
Educational Standards
 For purpose of making
education free and
universal for the younger
generation, he emphasized
on the implementation of
40-year Post war
educational plan within
one-fourth of its time.

11. Maulana Azad’s Ideas on Educational Policies
iii. Broadening of Educational
Outlook
 Making education free and
compulsory upto the
secondary stage.

12. Maulana Azad’s Ideas on Educational Policies
iv. Promotion of Mutual
Understanding
 Brought his ideology of human
fraternity and fellowship to bear
the office of Education Ministry.
 Azad was an apostle of
International amity and
indivisible unity of man
 He Had expressed his abiding
faith in the essential unity of man
holding it above all other
objectives of life.

13. Educational Leadership of Maulana Azad as
Education Minister
• When the national government was formed ,Jawaharlal Nehru
included the name of Maulana Azad in his cabinet as
education minister.
• The Departments of Social,Cultural and Scientific Research
were also placed under his charge.
• Different committees and commissions were comtituted in
respect of different levels of education.Such as
Primary,Secondary,University,Technical,Adul Education etc,.

14. 1.University Grants Commission(UGC),1948
2.All India Council For Secondary Education
3.Secondary Education Commission,1952
4.All India Council For Technical Education
5.Adult Education
6.Rural Higher Education
7.Central Social Development Board
8.Central Education Board
9.Educational and Vocational Guidance Bureau
10.National Organisation for Basic Education
11.Council for scientific and Technical Research
Following
Departments/Organisations/Commissions/Councils/Bo
ards/Bureaus were established during Maulana Azad’s
Ministership

15. • Programmes for development of Hindi and its acceptance as
national language.
• Schemes for Physical Education, Excursions, betterment of
youngsters, social service, education for disabled persons ,
Scholarships etc.,
• Three academies were established
I. Sahitya Academi
II. Art Academi
III. Dance-Drama and Music Academi
• New department opened in Education Ministry for establishing
cultural relations with UNESCO and international cultural
organisation.
• New organisation was also established for strengthening education
through exchange of views between teachers and students.

16. • Azad:An Ardent votary of theory united nationalism.
• Unity,Friendship & Love:Aim of his life

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