Ahrar Party (India)
| Ahrar Party | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari , Chaudhry Afzal Haq |
| Founded | 29 December 1929 |
| Ideology | Khatme Nabuwat Islamism |
| Colors | Red, white, black |
| Website | |
| http://Ahrarindia.com | |
The Ahrar Party known as the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and Majlis Ahrar Islam Hind is a political party, founded in India in 1930. 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 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 Bukhari, and the Majlis Ahrar Islam Hind, based in Ludhiana and led by descendants of 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, officiall ahrar historian
References
- 1 2 Christophe Jaffrelot. A history of Pakistan and its origins. Anthem Press, 2004. 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