Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar was an Indian leader, activist, scholar and journalist born in 1878. He studied at prominent Muslim institutions in India and history at Oxford University. After returning to India, he became the educational director of Rampur state. He was a co-founder of the Muslim League in 1906 and Jamia Millia Islamia, and served as president of the Muslim League from 1918 to 1928. He opposed British rule and led the Khilafat Movement to stop the deposition of the Turkish sultan. Jauhar became president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and supported Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Fourteen Points. He attended the Round Table Conference in 1930 before falling ill and dying in London in

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JAUHAR
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2. MAULANA
MUHAMMA
D ALI
JAUHAR
(10 December 1878 – 4 January 1931)

3. Moulana Mohammad Ali Johar (10
December 1878 – 4 January 1931) was
an Indian leader, activist, scholar,
journalist and poet. He was born on 10
December 1878 in Rampur. He belonged
to a pathan tribe of Khyber Pakhtoon
Khawa. He studied at the famous Muslim
institutes, Darul Uloom Deoband and
Aligarh Muslim University. He studied
modern history from Oxford University in
1898. On his return to India he became
the educational director of Rampur state.

4. He attended the first meeting of the Muslim League in
1906. He was a brilliant writer both in English
and Urdu. He started his own newspapers
called Hamdard and Comrade in 1911. He worked
hard to expand the Mohammadan Anglo Oriental
College. He was also a co-founder of Jamia Millia
Islamia. He became the president of Muslim League in
1918 and worked with it till 1928.
He travelled to England in 1919 to stop the deposition
of the Turkish Sultan, Mustafa Kamal who was
the Caliph of Islam. The rejection of British started the
Khilafat Movement by the Muslims. In 1921 he actively
brought Muslims together against the British rule and
was thus put in jail for 2 years.

5. He became president of Indian National Congress in 1923.
He opposed the Nehru Report as he did not want British or
Hindu leadership and thus supported the Fourteen points of
Quaid-e-Azam. He attended the famous Round Table
Conference in 1930 for Muslim League. He fell ill and died
soon afterwards in London on 4 January 1931. He was
buried at Baitul Muqaddas in Jerusalem upon his will.and he
stopped the killing of baby daughters alive before he died he
is wish was that he didn't wish to dig his grave in a slave
country called INDIA.

6. After his return to India, he took charge as education director
for the Rampur state, and later for almost a decade served in
the Baroda civil service. He possessed remarkable brilliance as
a writer and orator, He wrote articles in various newspapers like
“The Times”, “The Observer” and “The Manchester Guardian”
as well as other major English and Indian newspapers, in both
English and Urdu. He was man of a versatile genius and played
a great part in the endeavors against the British colonial rule.
He was a great orator and still greater Journalist. He became
firm opponents of British rule under the combined shock of the
Balkan wars and Kanpur Mosque incident in 1913. His
relentless determination and ardor in the cause of India’s
freedom.

7. British rejection of their demands resulted in
the formation of the Khilafat committee which
directed Muslims all over India to protest and
boycott the government. In 1921, Ali formed a
broad coalition with Muslim nationalists like
Shaukat Ali, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Mukhtar
Ahmed Ansari and Indian nationalist leader
Mahatama Gandhi, who enlisted the support of
the Indian National Congress and many
thousands of Hindus, who joined the Muslims
in demonstration.

8. ‘Mohammed Ali declared, ‘with the substance
of freedom in my hand. Otherwise I will not go
back to a slave country. I would even prefer to
die in a foreign country so long as it is a free
country, and if you do not give me freedom in
India you will have to give me a grave here.’
Mohammed Ali, a chronic patient of diabetes,
died soon after the conference in London, on
January 4, 1931 in London and was buried in
Jerusalem in the court-yard of Masjid-ul-Aqsa,
the second holiest mosque of
Islam.(Wikipedia.com)

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