In retaliation against this Hindu resistance, many Muslim shopkeepers Ahmed Khan refuse to bring down shutters for Bhagat Singh, even though he died for the cause of India’s freedom. This takes most leaders by surprise,’as Ali,’ besides having chaired a Congress session, Harish Patel was part of Gandhi’s no tax agitation and Nehru’s socialistic campaign. But some Hindu shopkeepers object on the ground that Ali was a Muslim. When, in 1930, news comes that Mohammad Ali is no more, the condolence meeting resolves that Lucknow city would observe a a total closure as a mark of respect to his departed soul. They discuss how Ali Brothers (Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali) had played a prominent role in the Khilafat movement and suffered imprisonment for the Congress in the 1920’s. Ansari are confabulating to provide a sense of direction to the Muslim masses at nodal centres like Allahabad and Aligarh.
Sir Mohammad Iqbal (who wrote the fiery nationalist poem Sare jehan Se Achha…) plays a vital role in influencing the newly growing middle class and the younger generation. An angry mob shouts slogans: ‘Simon! Go back’ against stiff police resistance.
The Congress, with Gandhi released, rallied around a boycott of Simon Commission. While Gandhi languished in jail, a parliamentary commission under Sir John Simon arrived in 1928 to make a review of the Montague-Chelmsford reforms of 1927 only to be greeted by massive demonstrations throughout India. Jinnah, the Muslim League leader, walked out of the Congress. Amidst the Hindu-Muslim collaboration crumbling at the edges, M.A. In 1922, Gandhi announced a new phase of civil disobedience leading to the ultimate defiance of paying taxes, but called it off later. The Congress spearheaded the non-cooperation movement, started in 1920 by Gandhi and the Khilafat Committee. Thanks to Gandhi’s leadership, a united Hindu-Muslim front was forged against the British. Nehru notes that during the post-mutiny period, all the leading men among Indian Muslims, including Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, were products of the old traditional education, although some of them were influenced by new ideas. The script is by Javed Siddiqi and the consultant is Asghar Ali Engineer. Ahsan, Aparajita Krishna as Khursheed, Irfan Khan as Saleem, Sohaila Kapur-Limaye as Nafisa, Lubna Siddiqi as Shaheen, and Satish Kaushik as Pandit.
Zahee as Hamid Ali, Harish Patel as Lala Makhanial, Ahmed Khan as Dr. A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service Broadcaster
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