Remembering Maulana Azad Subject: History Section: Personality Context: Historian S Irfan Habib’s biography, Maulana Azad: A Life, throws light on the man who stood against Muslim League’s demand for Pakistan Concept: He born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1888, his family relocated to Calcutta (now Kolkata) two years after his birth. He studied a variety of languages such as Persian, Urdu and Arabic, and subjects such as […]