Thursday, August 16, 2007

Meeting of the giants

Mahatma Gandhi with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad at the All India Congress Committee Meeting in Delhi, 1947. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, as a deputy Prime Minster of free India, had brought about the merger of princely states with the Indian Union. Maulana Abbul Kalam Azad was a Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian Independence Movement. He supported the Hindu-Muslim unity and was opposed to the partition of India on communal lines. (TOI Photo)

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