21 Facts About Muhammad Ali Jauhar

Muhammad Ali Jauhar, was an Indian Muslim activist, prominent member of the All-India Muslim League, journalist and a poet, a leading figure of the Khilafat Movement and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was elected to become the President of Indian National Congress party in 1923 and it lasted only for a few months.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was one of the founders and 14th president of the All-India Muslim League.

Mohammad Muhammad Ali Jauhar was born in 1878 in Najibabad, Rampur State.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was born to a rich family belonging to the Yusufzai clan.

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Muhammad Ali Jauhar's brothers were Shaukat, who became a leader of the Khilafat Movement, and Zulfiqar.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar became a writer and an orator of the first magnitude and a farsighted political leader, writing articles in major British and Indian newspapers like The Times, London, The Manchester Guardian and The Observer.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar launched the English weekly The Comrade in 1911 in Calcutta.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar moved to Delhi in 1912 and there he launched an Urdu-language daily newspaper Hamdard in 1913.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar had attended the founding meeting of the All India Muslim League in Dacca in 1906, and served as its president in 1918.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar represented the Muslim delegation that travelled to England in 1919 to convince the British government to influence the Turkish nationalist Mustafa Kemal not to depose the Sultan of Turkey, who was the Caliph of Islam and the presumed leader of all Islamic nations of that time.

In 1921, Jauhar formed a broad coalition with nationalist leaders like Shaukat Ali, Abul Kalam Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari as well as Mahatma Gandhi, who then enlisted the support of the Indian National Congress and many thousands of Hindus, who joined the Muslims in a demonstration of unity against the British government.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar wholeheartedly supported Gandhi's call for a national civil resistance movement, and inspired many hundreds of protests and strikes all over India.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was arrested by British authorities and imprisoned for two years for what was termed as a seditious speech at the meeting of the Khilafat Conference.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was disillusioned by the failure of the Khilafat movement and Gandhi's suspension of non-cooperation movement in 1922, owing to the Chauri Chaura incident.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar restarted his daily Hamdard, and left the Congress Party.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar opposed the Nehru Report, which was a document proposing constitutional reforms and a dominion status of an independent nation within the British Empire, written by a committee of Hindu and Muslim members of the Congress Party headed by President Motilal Nehru.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar became a critic of Gandhi, breaking with fellow Muslim leaders like Abul Kalam Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan and Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, who continued to support Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar attended the 'Conference' in London to show that only the Muslim League spoke for India's Muslims.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar died of a stroke in London on 4 January 1931 and was buried in Jerusalem by the choice of his relatives, friends and admirers.

Maulana Mohammad Ali 'Jauhar' is a 1984 documentary film directed by Saiyed Ahmad and produced by the Government of India's Films Division, it covers his political career and life as an Indian freedom fighter.