Abul Kalam Azad: The snake that bit India’s schooling system

The colonial, Marxist, and Nehruvian biases that we see in our textbooks are a results of the work that was began by Maulana Azad.An ardent supporter of pan-national loyalty of Muslims, he participated and superior the Khilafat motion that was launched by Congress to put in the ruler of Turkey as Khalifa.Maulana Azad, whose birthday India celebrates as National Education Day, is at least Gandhis relating to establishments within the schooling sector carrying his namesake. The birthday of Abul Kalam Azad, the previous schooling minister of India, is celebrated because the National Education Day in India. Born on November 11, 1888, in Mecca as Abul Kalam Azad, he was popularly generally known as Maulana Azad given his non secular studying. Azad was appointed as the primary schooling minister of India by Prime Minister Nehru and occupied the publish until his loss of life in 1958.The colonial, Marxist, and Nehruvian biases that we see in our textbooks are a results of the work that was began by Maulana Azad. The non secular chief crammed the schools and the ministry departments with sympathizers of Islam, Marxism and eliminated the linkages of India’s Hindu previous as a lot as doable. Maulana Azad ensured that the tons of of years of atrocities of the Muslim rulers on the Hindu topics in whitewashed and the youngsters be taught a ‘secularized’ model of historical past.An ardent supporter of pan-national loyalty of Muslims, he participated and superior the Khilafat motion that was launched by Congress to put in the ruler of Turkey as Khalifa. “If even a grain of the soul of Islam is alive among its followers, then I should say that if a thorn gets stuck in a Turk’s sole in the battlefield of war, then I swear by the God of Islam, no Muslim of India can be a Muslim until he feels that prick in his heart instead of sole because the Millat-e-Islam (the global Muslim community) is a single body,” Maulana has mentioned in a speech.Maulana Azad laid the muse for the ‘secularization’ of Indian historical past and social sciences and positioned the Marxist professors and bureaucrats in all necessary authorities posts. The intellectuals with opposite views had been purged; as there was a really restricted personal sector, the federal government patronage to left made it a dominant drive in academia.Commenting on the ethnic cleaning of non-Left teachers by the federal government, Sanjeev Sanyal, the economist and historian, wrote, “The Left dominance over the intellectual establishment has its roots in the systematic ‘ethnic cleansing of all non-Left thinkers since the 1950s…the result of the systematic cleansing was that there were no non-Left academics remaining in the social sciences field in India by the early 1990s.”The successive Ministers of Education constructed on the foundations of ‘secularism’ and Marxist Indology laid by Azad. After Azad, Ok L Shrimali grew to become the Minister of schooling for the subsequent 5 years and he continued with the insurance policies of Azad. After Shrimali, Humayun Kabir, M C Chagla, and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, all Muslims and self-proclaimed Marxists grew to become schooling ministers. All of them additional secularized academia and carried out ethnic cleaning of non-leftist professors, writers, and media individuals.Maulana Azad, whose birthday India celebrates as National Education Day, is at least Gandhis relating to establishments within the schooling sector carrying his namesake. The Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in Bhopal, the Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad, Maulana Azad Centre for Elementary and Social Education (MACESE Delhi University), the Maulana Azad College, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, in Kolkata, Bab – e – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Gate No. 7), Jamia Millia Islamia are simply to call a number of establishments carrying the title of the primary schooling minister of India who laid the muse of the whole lot that’s improper with the Indian schooling system.A hardcore Islamist, Maulana Azad had infamously mentioned, “Remember, today, for Islam, for Muslims, any national or local movement cannot be fruitful. In my beliefs, all of this is an act of magic by the presager-Satan who makes those asleep because it does not like those sleeping [ie Muslims] to rise up”.The most necessary matter is that now we have to construct a college in Aligarh, have to gather Rs 30 lakh for this, it would function a Kaaba of Aligarh. The day the college is established, wahi (revelation, of Quranic verse 5:3) … will land on the roof of the Strachey Hall (of AMU).” In verse 5:3, Allah says: “This day I have perfected for you your religion…”If India does need to rejoice National Education Day, it must be on the day of Saraswati Puja relatively than on the birthday of an Islamist who made a mockery of the traditional Indian schooling system and burdened our textbooks with Colonial, Marxist, and Nehruvian biases.