Shaukat Ali (politician)
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| Born | 10 March 1873 Rampur, Rampur State, British India, now Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Died | 26 November 1938 (aged 65) Delhi, British India |
| Known for | Leader of Khilafat Movement, Indian independence movement, Independence movement of Pakistan |
| Parent(s) | Abdul-Ali Khan (father) Abida Begum (mother) affectionately known as Bi Amman (1852- 13 November 1924) |
Maulana Shaukat Ali (10 March 1873 – 26 November 1938) Urdu: مولاناشوكت علي was an Indian Muslim nationalist and a leader of the Khilafat Movement. He was the elder brother of the renowned political leader Mohammad Ali Jouhar.
Shaukat Ali was born in 1873 in Rampur state in what is today Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University. He was extremely fond of playing cricket, captaining the university team.
Ali served in the civil service of the United Provinces of Oudh and Agra from 1896 to 1913 for 17 years in British India.
Shaukat Ali helped his younger brother Mohammad Ali Jouhar publish the Urdu weekly Hamdard and the English weekly Comrade. These two weekly magazines played a key role in shaping the political policy of Muslim India back then. In 1919, while jailed for publishing what the British charged as seditious materials and organizing protests, he was elected as the last president of the Khilafat conference. He was re-arrested and imprisoned from 1921 to 1923 for his support to Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress during the Non-Cooperation Movement (1919–1922). His fans accorded him and his brother the title of Maulana. In March 1922, he was in Rajkot jail and was later released in 1923.
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