Encyclopaedia on Maulana Azad

Maulana Azad was a peculiar and very special representative in a high degree of that great composite culture which has gradually grown in India. There are many representatives of it in various parts of India; but he, in his own venue, here in Delhi or in Bengal or Calcutta, where he spent the greater part of his life, represented this synthesis of various cultures which have come one after another to India, rivers that had flowed in and lost themselves in the ocean of Indian life, Indias humanity, affecting them, changing them, and being changed themselves by themSospoke Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the 1 st Maulana Azad Memorial Lecture on 11th November, 1959. He was a great religious scholar, journalist, writer, poet, philosopher and above all, a great political leader whose services and sacrifices in the freedom struggle will be long remembered alongwith his matchless contribution as free Indias first Education Minister. The books contain the life and works of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, an eminent scholar of Islamic culture, politician and educationist of repute. Thoughts of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on various subjects are also included.