Saifuddin Kitchlew - Wikipedia Saifuddin Kitchlew Saifuddin Kitchlew ( 1888 - 01 - 15 ) 15 January 1888 Amritsar, Punjab, British India 9 October 1963 ( 1963 - 10 - 09 ) ( aged 75 ) Delhi, India Nationality Indian Occupation freedom fighter, politician This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2017 ) This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. You can assist by editing it. ( August 2017 ) Saifuddin Kitchlew ( 15 January 1888 -- 9 October 1963 ) was an Indian freedom fighter, barrister and an Indian Muslim nationalist leader. An Indian National Congress politician, he first became Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee ( Punjab PCC ) head and later the General Secretary of the AICC in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on 10 April, he and another leader Dr. Satya Pal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize ( now known as Lenin Peace Prize ) in 1952. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Political career 3.1 Jallianwala Bagh 3.2 Political mainstream 4 Post Independence 5 Legacy 6 Bibliography 7 See also 7.1 Muslim Indian Nationalists 8 References Early life Saifuddin Kitchlew was born to the Kashmiri Muslim family of Azizuddin Kitchlew and Dan Bibi on 15 January 1888, in Amritsar, Punjab. His father owned a pashmina and saffron trading business and originally belonged to a Brahmin family of Baramulla. As it was his ancestor, Prakash Ram Kitchlew, who had converted to Islam and later his grandfather, Ahmed Jo migrated from Kashmir in mid 19th century to Amritsar after of the great Kashmir famine of 1871. Kitchlew went to Islamia High School in Amritsar, and later obtained a B.A. from Cambridge University, and a Ph. D. from a German university, and began practising law in India. r. Career On his return he established his legal practice in Amritsar, and soon came in contact with Mahatma Gandhi. In 1919, he was elected the Municipal Commissioner of the city of Amritsar. He took part in the Satyagraha ( Non-cooperation ) movement and soon left his practice, to become part of the freedom movement, as well as the All India Khilafat Committee. Political career Jallianwala Bagh Dr. Kitchlew was first exposed to Indian nationalism when the whole country was outraged by the Rowlatt Acts. Kitchlew was arrested with Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Satyapal for leading protests in Punjab against the legislation. To protest the arrest of the trio, a public meeting had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh, when Gen. Reginald Dyer and his troops fired mercilessly upon the unarmed, civilian crowd. Hundreds of people were killed, and hundreds more injured. This act, the worst case of civilian massacre since the Indian rebellion of 1857 outraged the nation, and riots broke out all throughout the Punjab. Political mainstream Kitchlew rose in the Indian National Congress, first heading its Punjab unit, and then rising to the post of AICC General Secretary, an important executive position in 1924. Kitchlew was also the chairman of the reception committee of the Congress session in Lahore in 1929 - 30, where on 26 January 1930, the Indian National Congress declared Indian independence and inaugurated an era of civil disobedience and revolution aimed to achieve full independence. Kithclew was also a founding leader of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha ( Indian Youth Congress ), which rallied hundreds of thousands of students and young Indians to nationalist causes. He was also the member of the Foundation Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia, which met on 29 October 1920 and led to the foundation of Jamia Millia Islamia University. He started an Urdu daily `` Tanzim '' to uplift the Muslims and was instrumental in establishment of Swaraj Ashram in January 1921 at Amritsar to train young men for the national work and to promote Hindu - Muslim unity. Throughout the 1930 - 1934 struggles, Kitchlew was repeatedly arrested, and in all spent fourteen years behind bars. Post independence Dr. Kitchlew was opposed to the Muslim League 's demand for Pakistan and later in the 1940s became President of the Punjab Congress Committee. In 1947 he strongly opposed the acceptance of the Partition of India by the Congress Party. He spoke out against it at public meetings all over the country, and at the All India Congress Committee session that ultimately voted for the resolution. He called it a blatant `` surrender of nationalism for communalism ''. Some years after partition and Independence, he left the Congress. He began to come closer to the Communist Party of India. He was the founder president of the All - India Peace Council and also remained President of 4th Congress of All - India Peace Council, held at Madras in 1954, besides remaining Vice President of the World Peace Council. Dr. Kitchlew moved to Delhi after their house was burnt down during partition of India riots of 1947, thereafter he spent the rest of his years working for closer political and diplomatic relations with the USSR, and received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, which was renamed for Lenin Peace Prize under De-Stalinization. In 1951, a Government Act made him, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, life trustees of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust. He died on 9 October 1963, survived by a son, Toufique Kitchlew, who now lives in a Lampur village on the outskirts of Delhi, and five daughters. While four of his daughters were married into Pakistan, ( two survive to date ), one daughter, Zahida Kitchlew, was married to the Malayalam music director M.B. Sreenivasan, a Hindu gentleman. Legacy A posh colony in Ludhiana, Punjab is named after Dr. Saifuddin Kichlew. It is popularly called Kitchlu Nagar. Indian Post released a special commemorative stamp featuring him in 1989. The Jamia Milia Islamia created a Saifuddin Kitchlew Chair at the MMAJ Academy of Third world Studies in 2009. Bibliography Freedom fighter : The story of Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew, by F.Z. Kichlew. New Horizon, 1979. ISBN 0 - 86116 - 126 - 2. Saifuddin Kitchlew : hero of Jallianwala Bagh ( National Biography ), by Toufique Kitchlew. National Book Trust, India, 1987. Selected works and speeches of Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew, Ed. Toufique Kitchlew. 1999. Luminous Life Of Saifuddin Kitchlew, by Shyam Dua. Tiny Tots Publication, 2004. ISBN 81 - 7573 - 818 - 9. See also Indian Independence Movement, Indian Nationalism, Indian National Congress Amritsar Massacre, Salt Satyagraha, Partition of India Muslim Indian Nationalists Dr Syed Mahmud, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Maulana Azad, Abbas Tyabji, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Asaf Ali References ^ Jump up to : `` From the Land of Paradise to the Holy City ''. The Tribune. 26 January 2006. Jump up ^ `` Op - ed : Let 's not forget Jallianwala Bagh ''. Daily Times. 13 April 2003. ^ Jump up to : Mahmud, p. 40 Jump up ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia ( in Russian ) ( 2nd ed. ). Moscow : Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1953. vol. 24, p. 366. ^ Jump up to : `` Ousted by Amritsar for his religion, freedom fighter 's son counts days in Capital -- to return ' home ' ''. The Indian Express. 5 August 2009. Jump up ^ Sen, Ronojoy ( 5 August 2007 ). `` Killing field ''. The Times of India. Jump up ^ `` History of Jamia : Foundation ''. Jamia Millia Islamia website. Jump up ^ `` New law likely to keep Cong place on Jallianwala Bagh trust ''. The Indian Express. 21 July 2006. Jump up ^ Mohan, p. 211 Jump up ^ `` JMI PRESS RELEASE ''. Jamia Milia Islamia website. 19 February 2009. Mahmud, Sayed Jafar ( 1994 ). Pillars of modern India, 1757 - 1947. APH Publishing. ISBN 81 - 7024 - 586 - 9. Who 's who on Indian stamps ( 451 brief biographies ). Mohan B. Daryanani. 1999. ISBN 84 - 931101 - 0 - 8. 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Question: who characterised the partition of india as a surrender of nationalism in favour of communalism
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