Muslims politically sought a base for themselves, separate from mainstream Indians and Hindus, who had espoused the Indian National Congress. Rather, Muslim scholars, religious leaders and politicians founded the All India Muslim League in 1906. Despite proportionally being only 20% of India's collective population, Muslims felt that their massive cultural and economic contributions to India's heritage and life merited an assuredly signifi ...

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Some prominant Muslims politically sought a base for themselves, separate from Hindus and other Indian nationalists, who espoused the Indian National Congress. Muslim scholars, religious leaders and politicians founded the All India Muslim League in 1906. Muslims comprised 25% to 30% of (pre-partition) India's collective population. Some Muslim leaders felt that their massive cultural and economic contributions to India's heritage and life merited an significant role for Muslims ...

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Islam is the second-largest religion in India, where Muslims number around 137 million people (Census 2001). India has the third-largest population of Muslims in the world. Since its introduction to India, Islam has made valuable religious, philosophy, culture, social and political contributions to Indian history, ...

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The All India Muslim League was a political party in British India and was the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state from British India on the Indian subcontinent. After the independence of India and Pakistan, the League continued as a minor party in India, especially in Kerala, where it is often in government within a coalition with others. In Pakistan, the League formed the country's first government, but disintegrated during the 1950s following an army coup. One or more of factions of the Muslim Lea ...

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United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the present ruling coalition of political parties in India. Its constituents include: Indian National Congress (INC) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJNSP) Indian Union Muslim League (I ...

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The Republic of Indonesia is located in the Malay Archipelago, the world's largest archipelago, between Indochina and Australia, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populous overall. It has had free elections since the 1998 Revolution which led to the resignation of President Suharto, who came to power in 1965. Indonesia - History. Under the influences of Hinduism and Buddhism, several kingdoms formed on the islands of Sumatr ...

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India is a secular, democratic republic that protects all its religious minorities and has no official religion, although Hindus make over 80% of its people. India has a population of over 120 million Muslims, and is culturally more definitive and dominative of its South Asian neighbors. India's Muslims pride in the secular nation, and consider themselves fully Indian. Despite political and communal conflicts with Hindus and Sikhs, Muslims strongly support India's claim to Kashmir and Muslim soldiers increase its defensive preparation ...

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The first organized expressions began with Muslim scholars and reformers like Syed Ahmed Khan, Syed Ameer Ali and the Aga Khan. Expression of Muslim separatism and nationhood emerged from modern Islam's pre-eminent poet and philosopher, Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal and political activists like Choudhary Rahmat Ali. ...

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the Muslim League's call for Pakistan. Some historians have come to believe that Jinnah did not actually want the partition of the Indian subcontinent, but used it as a potent weapon to secure greater political power for Indian Muslims. However, as time went on, communal tensions rose and so partition won increasing support among many Muslims in Muslim-majority areas of the Indian subcontinent. On August 14, 1947, Pakistan was created out of the Muslim majority provinces of British India, Sind, the west of Punj ...

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the Muslim League's call for Pakistan. Some historians have come to argue that Jinnah didn't actually want India's partition, but used it as a potent weapon to secure greater political power for Indian Muslims. On August 14, 1947, Pakistan was created out of the Indian provinces of Sind, the west of Punjab, Baluchistan, the east of Bengal and the North West Frontier Province. Muslim Nationalism seemed to lose out to ethnic nationalism in 1971, when East Pakistan, a Bengali do ...

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Main Articles: Indian Independence Movement, Indian rebellion of 1857, Indian National Congress - Freedom Era In the Indian rebellion of 1857, Indian soldiers and regional kings fought the forces allied with the British Empire in different parts of India. The war arose from the racist viewpoint and disregard the British exhibited to Indian religious traditions, and the desire for Indians to retain religious purity and freedom regardless of war or violence as its expense. There were also kingdoms and peoples, such Holkar, Scindi ...

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See Also: Politics of India The political identity of the Indian National Congress, India's largest political party and one which controlled government for over 45 years, is reliant on the connection to Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and the Nehru-Gandhi family which has controlled the Congress since independence. The Congress Party's fortunes up till the 1970s were single-handedly propelled by its legacy as the flagship of India's Independence Movement, and the core platform of the party today evokes that past strongly, considering its ...

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A significant aspect of Indian Islam is the importance of shrines attached to the memory of great Sufi saints. Sufism is a mystical path (tarika) as distinct from the legalistic path of the sharia. A Sufi attains a direct vision of oneness with God, often on the edges of orthodox behavior, and can thus become a Pir (living saint) who may take on disciples ([murid]s) and set up a spiritual lineage that can last for generations. Orders of Sufis became important in India during the thirteenth century following the ministry of Moinuddin Chishti ...

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Islam in India, Islam in India - Famous Indian Muslims, Islam in India - Population Statistics, Islam in India - Illegal Immigrants from Bangladesh, Islam in India - The History of Islam in India, Islam in India - Islamic Traditions in South Asia, Islam in India - Post - Independence, Islam in India - Literature

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A significant aspect of Indian Islam is the importance of shrines attached to the memory of great Sufi saints. Sufism is a mystical path (tarika) as distinct from the legalistic path of the sharia. A Sufi attains a direct vision of oneness with God, often on the edges of orthodox behavior, and can thus become a Pir (living saint) who may take on disciples ([murid]s) and set up a spiritual lineage that can last for generations. Orders of Sufis became important in India during the thirteenth century following the ministry of Moinuddin Chishti ...

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Islam in India, Islam in India - Arrival of Islam, Islam in India - Sufism and spread of Islam, Islam in India - Role of Muslims in India's freedom movement, Islam in India - Muslims in Present India, Islam in India - Muslim Institutes, Islam in India - Population Statistics, Islam in India - Illegal Immigrants from Bangladesh, Islam in India - The History of Islam in India, Islam in India - Islamic Traditions in South Asia, Islam in India - Post - Independence, Islam in India - Literature

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See Also: Arya Samaj, Brahmo Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission A new generation of Western-educated Indians sought to end practices and traditions that were responsible in their view for India's economic backwardness, social depravation and political disunity. Laying out the first definitive national vision, this generation sought to promote Western-style scientific education and democracy. Raja Ram Mohan Roy sought to fight suttee and illiteracy. He founded the Presidency College in Bengal, and inspired the foundation of the B ...

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See Also: Indo-Pakistani Wars, Military History of India In October 1947, the Indian Army entered the Himalayan kingdom of Kashmir to prevent tribal militants from Pakistan from occupying the state. India would fight two more wars with Pakistan - in 1965 and 1971 - and fight off a militant incursion into the state in Kargil in 1999. India was invaded by Communist China in 1962, which resulted in the occupation by China of Aksai Chin in Kashmir. China had also captured territory in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, but withdre ...

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See Also: History of India, Ancient India Except for roughly 40 years under Mauryan Emperor Ashoka, the whole of India as it is today has never ever been a single political and social unit. Ashokan India began from the eastern heart of modern India, stretched into modern Bangladesh, Pakistan and beyond, into Afghanistan. Neither the Gupta Dynasty nor the Mughal Empire ever succeeded in uniting the Indian subcontinent to this extent. This extent was re-achieved only under the British Empire in the 1800s, but lost with the Partition of India in 1947. < ...

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See Also: Demographics of India Indian nationalism is as much a diverse blend of nationalistic sentiments as its people are ethnically and religiously diverse. Thus the most influential undercurrents are more than just Indian in nature. The most controversial and emotionally-charged fiber in the fabric of Indian nationalism is religion. Religion forms a major, and in many cases, the central element of Indian life. Ethnic communities are diverse in terms of linguistics, social traditions and history across India. Indian nationalism - Hindu Rashtra. See also:

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Dr. Khan had left the AMU owing to its historic resistance to the Indian National Congress. Along with many prominent Muslim nationalists like Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, he laid the foundations of the Jamia Millia Islamia (Islamic National University) in Aligarh in 1920, in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for Indians to boycott government institutions. The JMI grew into a prominent and prestigious university, and was moved to Delhi, where it stands today. Dr. Khan served as its first Chancello ...

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Hakim Ajmal Khan, Hakim Ajmal Khan - Early Life, Hakim Ajmal Khan - Nationalism, Hakim Ajmal Khan - Jamia Millia Islamia, Hakim Ajmal Khan - Legacy

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