Freedom Fighter Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar

 "Daur-e-Hayat will come,

After the murderer teri kaza.

Hai Ibtida after our teri inteho."

"If you cannot give freedom to India, you will have to give my graveyard here."

~ Addressing the first round table conference.

Postage stamp issued by two nations in gratitude in memory of freedom fighter Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, founder of Jamia Millia Islamia.

"दौर-ए-हयात आयेगा,

कातिल तेरी कजा के बाद।

है इब्तेदा हमारी तेरी इन्तेहॉ के बाद।"

"अगर आप हिन्दुस्तान को आजादी नहीं दे सकते, तो आपको यहीं मेरे कब्र की जमीं देनी होगी।"

~प्रथम गोलमेज सम्मेलन को संबोधित करते हुए।

जामिया मिलिया इस्लामिया के संस्थापक, स्वतंत्रता सेनानी मौलाना मुहम्मद अली जौहर की स्मृति में कृतज्ञ दो राष्ट्रों द्वारा जारी डाक टिकट।

Ultimately Mohammad Ali's frequent jail sentences, his diabetes, and lack of proper nutrition while jailed made him very sick. Despite his failing health, he wanted to attend the first Round Table Conference held in London in 1930. Ali attended the 'Conference' in London (the chairman being Sir Agha Khan of the Muslim delegation) to show that only the Muslim League spoke for India's Muslims. Reportedly his words to the British government were that he would not return to India alive unless the country was set free, "I would prefer to die in a foreign country so long as it is a free country, and if you do not give us freedom in India, you will have to give me a grave here.

Mohammad Ali was born in 1878 in Najibabad, Rampur State. His father, Abdul Ali Khan, died when he was five years old. His brothers were Shaukat, who became a leader of the Khilafat Movement, and Zulfiqar. His mother Abadi Begum (1852–1924), affectionately known as Bi Amman, inspired her sons to take up the mantle of the struggle for freedom from colonial rule. To this end, was adamant that her sons were properly educated.

Despite the early death of his father, Jauhar attended Aligarh Muslim University and, in 1898, Lincoln College, Oxford, studying modern history.

Upon his return to India, he served as education director for the Rampur state and later joined the Baroda civil service. He became a writer and an orator of the first magnitude and a farsighted political leader, writing articles in major British and Indian newspapers like The Times, London, The Manchester Guardian, and The Observer. He launched the English weekly The Comrade in 1911 in Calcutta. It quickly gained circulation and influence. He moved to Delhi in 1912 and there he launched an Urdu-language daily newspaper Hamdard in 1913. He married Amjadi Bano Begum (c. 1886–1947) in 1902. Amjadi Begum was actively involved in the national and Khilafat movement.

Jouhar worked hard to expand the Aligarh Muslim University, then known as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, and was one of the co-founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia in 1920, which was later moved to Delhi.

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