13 July 1931 Who was abdul Qadeer Khan ? It was a speech and - TopicsExpress



          

13 July 1931 Who was abdul Qadeer Khan ? It was a speech and what followed it that made him a hero of the 1931 uprising in Kashmir. His identity, however, still remains a mystery. Abdul Qadeer Khan left the political scene of Kashmir as dramatically as he entered it. His speech against the Dogra rule in the state at Khanqah-e- Moulla shrine, asking people to revolt against the cruel policies of the Maharaja, gave a vent to the perpetual yet dormant anger among the civilians who suffered under different autocratic rules of Sikhs, Afghans and then the Dogras. Although much has been written about Khan by historians, scholars and writers , most of it lacks proof. Till date, nobody knows what happened to the revolutionary Abdul Qadeer Khan. Before his rebellion against the Dogra rule, Qadeer Khan is believed to have worked as butler with a British Officer, Colonel Alford, a British officer who had come to Kashmir along with his wife and children and they were staying in a houseboat. Noted historian Fida Mohammad Hasnain and writer Shabnam Qayoon believe that Abdul Qadeer Khan belonged to a Pathan family of Rampur connected with the Pan- Islamic Movement of Maulana Jamal Ud Din Astarabadi. His disguised visit as a servant of a British tourist, after the secret visit of Maulana Astarabadi, is significant. Before the delivery of the inflammatory speech, he had established his contacts with the political thinkers at the shop of Pir Abdul Ahd Shah. Historian also says that Maulana Jamal ud din Astarabadi was the founder of the Pan Islamic Movement. Abdul Qadeer Khan was a prominent worker of this movement and he could speak English, Urdu, Persian and Arabic. Hasnain also says khan must have been murdered by the Maharaja and is buried somewhere between Goni Khan and Lal Ded Hospital. But Zahir ud din , a senior journalist and human rights activist who has also researched about Khan says that he was basically from North western frontier (Afghanistan) but some 300 years back , his ancestors had shifted to Gutli Bagh, Ganderbal Kashmir. In support of his findings, he says if Qadeer had been an outsider then the Mahraja would have never allowed him to stay in Kashmir.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:14:48 +0000

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