Message from the IMWS Chair Saied Laher
This year marks the diamond anniversary of the Indian Muslim Welfare Society and it is a great honour and a pleasure to be the Chair at this very important occasion. We have over the years faced many challenges and by the grace...
7. The Road to Independence and Partition Part II: India and Pakistan
by Mohammed Barber “We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings” Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1947 The Second World War was a game changer for India, and though Independence became tantalisingly close in 1945...
5. Role of Ulema-e-Deoband in the Independence Movement
By Mohammed Barber “I have had relation with Darul-Uloom since the time the Shaikhul-Hind Maulana Mahmood Hasan was alive. Sitting here we used to make plans for the independence movement as to how we might drive away the Engli...
4. Non Violence: Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan
By Mohammed Barber There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mec...
3. The First World War and India
By Mohammed Barber “The policy of His Majesty’s Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual devel...
The Grand Old Man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji
The Indian Independence Movement is littered with historical giants, chief among them Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah. However, these figures largely enter the scene after the First World War. A major figure of the early Independence ...
2. Founding of Congress and the Start of the Independence Movement
By Mohammed Barber “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals...
1. Indian Independence and Partition: The British in India
By Mohammed Barber “What honour is left to us, when we have to take orders from a handful of traders who have not yet learned to wash their bottoms?” Narayan Singh, a Mughal officer 70 years ago this year, two of the twentieth ...
Political Literacy and Media Training
Religion, politics and the media, all of these themes and more were up for intense debate at the Al-Hikmah Centre as the IMWS hosted a political literacy and media training course last month. The day was led by Forward Thinking...
Local teens excel in DofE Expedition
Braving the changing weathers, muddy fields and gorgeous sights of North Yorkshire, a group of 16 young people from Batley have successfully completed the expedition part of their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). The expeditio...
