Bahadur yar jung biography of mahatma
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Muhammad Bahadur Khan
Muhammad Bahadur Khan (3 February 1905 – 25 June 1944), alias Saadi Khan. Titles Bahadur Yar Jung (Urdu: بہادر یار جنگ) and Quaid-e-Millath (Urdu: قائد ملت) was an Hyderabadi Muslim who argued for the formation of Muslim states in India during the British Occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.
Early life
He was born in 1905 to Nawab Nasib Yawar Jung and named Saadi Khan alias Muhammad Bahadur Khan. He was descended from the KakazaiPashtun family which had come to Hyderabad during the reign of the NizamSikandar Jah (1903–29) and was granted a minor jagir of Lal Garhi, He was also a hereditary jamadar of the nazim-e-jamiat (commander of the Irregular Forces) of the Nizam.
His mother died barely seven days after his birth. He was therefore brought up by his maternal grandmother up to the age of 14 and thereafter by his paternal grandmother. He was educated at the Madarsa-e-Aliya and Darul-Uloom ( now City College Hyderabad ) and acquired
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Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Hyderabad: When poetry triumphed over politics
The September 17th anniversary of the ‘Police Action’, which led to the integration of the princely state of Hyderabad in 1948, has become increasingly contentious with selective use of history by political parties to further their current polarising agenda. Lost in the din is nuance and context which allows us to see the complex socio-political reality behind the binaries. There were many instances where the contending groups came together and cooperated. Similarly, there were many figures of the nationalist movement who were universally admired in Hyderabad.
This article focuses on one such instance by showing how individuals can rise above the divides and be a force for unity and cooperation. It also demonstrates that the Hyderabadi society of the 1930s and 1940s was in flux when multiple visions of the future were being debated and discussed. It also challenges the simplistic attempts at communal cha
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The prophet of India - The Hindu
10 August 1997 Title: The prophet of India
Author: Narendra Luther
Publication: The Hindu
Date: August 10, 1997
When I was researching for my book: "Hyderabad - Memoirs of a City", I came
across a story that a certain noble, Nawab Akbar Yar Jung had, in a speech
delivered in the Thirties, referred to Lord Krishna as a "Propher" of India
and as a result was dismissed from service. I knew his son Prof.
Rasheeduddin Khan was in Delhi and wrote to him to ascertain the facts.
This story is based on the letters and other documents that he sent.
Ghulam Akbar Khan (1856-1957) was the son of Ahmed Sher Khan, a Pathan
whose forefathers had migrated from the Khyber område (now in Pakistan) in
the mid-18th Century to Kaimguni in Farukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
It was one of the four major areas of Pathan habitation in India.
At the age of 16, Ghulam Akbar came to Hyderabad to study law. After
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