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Turkish relief fund. 49 Women, especially the Muslim women, had begun to participate in the freedom
struggle.
Bi Amman proved that female participation in the political movement not only provided moral
and material support for the development of anti‐colonialist politics but it also gave encouragement
to the women of other Muslim countries, who were passing through same situation. For example,
the Egyptian women were greatly impressed by Bi‐ Amman’s practical role in politics and decided to
follow her in their freedom struggle. 50 Surely, she was the role model not only for the women of subcontinent
but also out of India, who wanted to die in an independent country, as she herself wished.
Dr. Zahida Suleman,
Professor/Head of History Department,
Lahore College for Women University,
Jail Road, Lahore, Pakistan.
emu290@hotmail.com
Notes
1
Daily Newspaper Zamindar (Urdu), Golden Jubilee Number, Lahore: January, 1953
2
K.K Aziz, A History of the Idea of Pakistan (Lahore: Adab, Printers 1975) , 25
3
Ashraf Atta, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan (Urdu), (Lahore: Maktaba Karwar Karachi Road, 1966), 44
4
Qazi Abdul Gaffar, Hayat – I – Ajmal (Urdu) (Aligarh: Anjuman Taraqqie _ Urdu, 1950), 146
5
Hakim Inayatullah Naseem, Zafar Ali Khan aur Unka Ahad, (Urdu), (Lahore: Islamic Publishing House, 1986),
76
6
Zamindar, Golden Jubilee Number, Lahore: January, 1953
7
Ghulam Hussain Zulfiqar, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan: Hayat Khidmat – o – Aasar (Urdu) (Lahore: Sang‐e‐Meel
Publications, 1993), 115
8
O’ Dwyer, Sir Michael, India as I knew it, (London: 1925), 172
9
The Indian Annual Register, 1921, Part1, 103
10
Afzal Iqbal, (ed) Select Writing and Speeches of Maulana Muhammad Ali, (Lahore: Institute of Islamic
Culture, 1974), 175 – 186
11
Sarfaraz Hussain, Muslims Women’s Role in the Pakistan Movement, (Lahore: Research Society Of Pakistan,
University of Punjab, Lahore, 1992 ), 20
12
Azhra Asghar Ali, The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women 1920‐1947, ( Karachi : Oxford
University Press , 2000), 44‐45
13
A Letter to Mrs Besant from the Mother of Muhammad Ali, December 11 th , 1917. Shan Muhammad,
Unpublished letters of the Ali Brothers, (New Delhi : Idarah‐i‐ Adabiyat Delhi , 1978), 126
14
Ibid
15
Sarfaraz Hussain, Muslims women role in the Pakistan movement , 31
16
Shan Muhammad, Unpublished leters of the Ali Brothers, 868
17
Ibid, 87
18
Moin – ul‐ Haq, The Khilafat Movement, A History of the Freedom Movement, Vol III, (Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 1961) 127
19
The Indian Annual Register, 1921, 156
20
Lord Everslay, The Turkish Empire, (Lahore: Premier Book House, 1967), 419
21
The Indian Annual Register, 1921, part I, 103
22
Gerald Dine Forbes, The New Cambridge History of India, IV – 2 – Women Modern India (London: Cambridge
University Press, 1998) 126
23
Zamindar, 23 rd October, 1921
24
Zamindar, 29 th October, 1921
25
Zamindar, 24 th October, 1921
26
Gail Minault, The Role of Muslim Women in Indian Nationalism, (Delhi, Chaankya Publications, 1982),
454
143