Word: abdulkalam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
...this is true or not, the Madras declaration, by recognizing the separatist demands, may paradoxically prove to be an important step toward India's wartime and post-war unity. But the first reaction of some Congress leaders to the declaration was shocked disapproval. In Calcutta Congress President Maulana Abdulkalam Azad said that he was pained by C.R.'s attitude...
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