Question

Along with Mahatma Gandhi who amongst the following Muslims did lift the bier of Bal Gangadhar Tilak?
1. Shaukat Ali
2. Mohammad Ali
3. Maulana A. K. Azad
4. M. A. Ansari

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Shaukat Ali

The correct answer is Shaukat Ali.

• Shaukat Ali lift the bier of Bal Gangadhar Tilak along with Mahatma Gandhi.
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak or Lokmanya Tilak was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and independence activist.
• He was an ardent follower of Swaraj.
• Maulana Shaukat Ali was also an Indian Muslim leader of the Khilafat Movement. 
  • He was the elder brother of the renowned political leader Mohammad Ali Jouhar.

• Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar launched the Urdu weekly Hamdard and in English the Comrade in 1911.
• The founding editor of this newspaper was Zafar Ali Khan, a poet, intellectual, writer, Muslim nationalist, and supporter of All India Muslim League's Pakistan Movement.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement against British rule in the first half of the 20th century.
  • He was highly respected throughout his life as a man of high moral integrity.
  • Azad was involved in Gandhi’s various civil disobedience (satyagraha) campaigns, including the Salt March (1930).
  • He was president of the Congress Party in 1923 and again in 1940–46.
• Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari was an Indian physician and nationalist who was a member of the Foundation Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia, a prominent Islamic university established in 1920 in Delhi.
  • Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari joined the Congress and the Muslim League.
  • He later served as president for both Muslim League during 1918 -1920 and Indian National Congress in 1927.