Book Reviews

S. Irfan Habib, Maulana Azad: A Life, Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2023, xii+306 pages, Rs 899

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a polymath, nationalist, secularist par excellence, and a key figure in India’s nation-building process. The life and thought of the Maulana have certainly drawn considerable scholarly attention: Mahadev Desai, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: The President of Indian National Congress: A Biographical Memoir, Foreword by Mahatma Gandhi (Agra: Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co, 1946); A.B. Rajput, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Lahore: Lion Press, 1946); Humayun Kabir, ed., Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: A Memorial Volume (Delhi: Asia Publishing House, 1959); Ian Henderson Douglas, Abul Kalam Azad: An Intellectual and Religious Biography, edited by Gail Minault and Christian W. Troll (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988);…