Freedom Fighers from Aligarh Muslim University
AMU alumni played a significant role in the national freedom movement. Knowing about the contribution of AMU towards the national struggle of independence is relevant to dispel the myth that the founder of AMU, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, advocated that Muslims of India constituted a separate nation, qaum, or that the idea of Pakistan took birth among the intellectual class of Aligarh.
Prominent Freedom Fighters
Maulana Shaukat Ali
Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(Frontier Gandhi)
Maulana Hasarat Mohani
He coined the iconic slogan "Inquilab Zindabad"
Raja Mahinder Pratap
(President of 1st Indian Government established in exile at Kabul)
Zafar Ali Khan
Saifuddin Kitchlew
(Recipient of Lenin Peace Prize)
Abdul Majeed Khwaja
Qazi Adeel Abbasi
Yakub Hasan Sait
KM Ashraf
Syud Hossain
Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
Syed Mahmood
Tassauq Ahmad Khan Sherwani
Dr Zakir Husain
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah
Syed Mir Qasim
Abdul Ghafoor
Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Abdur Rahman
Abdul Qayyum Ansari
Jaleel Ahmad Kidwai
Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim
Captain Abbas Ali Khan