As India celebrates it's 74th Independence day Tomorrow, let's revive some of the great freedom fighters who we haven't read in the history text Books, a thread for all unapologetic Muslims the contribution of India's Muslims in Independence from Britishers please read & spread.

1.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, probably the only name which comes to our minds if asked about muslims who fought for the freedom of India. Alas, the modern Indian history books/syllabus has NO space for many other brave souls who lived, fought and died to see our country, India.

2. Maulana Hasrat Mohani Inqalab Zindabad (long live revolution), two words coined by maulana which become more famous than his own identity.

Maulana Hasrat Mohani participated in the struggle for Indian Independence and was jailed for many years by British authorities. He was the first person in Indian History who demanded ‘Complete Independence’ in 1921.

3. Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (1797– 20 August 1861) was one of the main figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was a philosopher, an author, poet, a religious scholar, but is most remembered for issuing a fatwa in favor of Jihad against the ‘English’ in 1857.
He died on 12-02-61

4. Silk Letter Movement (Reshmi Rumal Thereek)
Originally, the Reshmi Rumal Tehreek refers to a movement organised by the Deobandi leaders between 1913 to 1920, aimed at freeing India from the British Rule by allying with Ottom Turkey, Imperial Germany, and Afghanistan.

The plot was uncovered by Punjab CID with the capture of letters from Ubaidullah Sindhi, one of the Deobandi leaders then in Afghanistan, to Mahmud al Hasan another leaders then in persia. The letters were written in silk cloth, hence the name.

5. Best known for his role in the Rebellion of 1857, Awadh and capture of Lucknow.
British historian G.B. Malleson describes Maulvi Ahmedullah Shah of Faizabad a one of the greatest heroes of the first War of Independence (1857).

Jagannath Singh presented the head of Ahmedullah to the British District Magistrate and claimed 50,000 rupees reward. British writter Malleson describes death of maulvi as follows.
Thus died the Moulvee Ahmed Oolah Shah of Faizabad.

"If a patriot is a man who plots and fights for the independence, wrongfully destroyed, for his native country, then most certainly, the moulvee was a true patriot".

6. The man who gave us terms Quit India Movement and Simon Go Back!

Yusuf Meherally was an Indian freedom fighter and socialist leader. He was elected Mayor of Bombay in 1942 while he was imprisoned in Yerawada Central Prison.

7.Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah, known with his honorific as Maulana Barkatullah, was an Indian revolutionary. Barkatullah fought from outside India, with fiery speeches and revolutionary writings in leading newspapers, for the independence of India.

He did not live to see India free.
Barkatullah was a first president of India Independence Party.
In 1988, Bhopal University was renamed Barkatullah University in his honour.

8. Famous as ‘Frontier Gandhi’, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was one of the major reasons behind the Britishers leaving India. He pioneered the famous *Khudai Khidmatgar* movement in 1929 and it successfully guided it to its Destiny. Aftr Indpndc, he opsd the partitions but failed.

9. Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali (Ali Brothers)
Ali brothers started a famous Khilafat Movement in 1921, with Mahatma Gandhi as it’s cheif, creating a great example of plural society and culture of India.

Ali Brothers published the urdu weekly Hamdard and the weekly Comrade. In 1919, while jailed for publishing what the British charged as seditious materials and organizing protests. Shaukat Ali was re-arrested and imprisoned from 1921 to 1923 for his support to Mahatma Gandhi.

10. There were more than 45,000 Muslim freedom fighters who fought the battle of Independence & got Martyred but somewhere lost in the history books.

If asked about sum total of muslims who fought war of independence, the brave-hearts mentioned above will only make a fraction of it. Utterly shameful that they don’t even get a mention,ones also because of whom we celebrate a day like today, 15th August,the Independence day of