Subramania Bharati#Subramania
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#Subramania
Subramania Bharati · 1882–1921
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Who this is
Islamic scholarship, revolutionary journalism, the freedom movement, education — a theologian who became a nation-builder.
“In October 1947, standing on the steps of Delhi's Jama Masjid before Muslims fleeing to Pakistan, the man who had lost every argument of the decade told the fearful to stay — and then went back to his desk and built the education system of the country that had broken his heart.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Arguing from inside the Quran, not against it, that Indian Muslims belonged to one undivided Indian nation — he lost that argument to Partition in 1947, and then spent his last decade building the institutions of the country he had failed to keep whole: the first IIT, the UGC, the national academies of letters and the arts.”
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