Not praising him needlessly here. Comparison of India with China is very unjustified for the simple reason that China was under dictatorship. If such achievement is everything with no regard to other aspects of life, then Germany under Hitler achieved the most.
I do praise Maulana Azad for the fact that education ministry under him did not try to indoctrinate the Indians the way it is done in almost all other countries, even more so in those who have recently gotten independence.
To say the least and in the words you can comprehend - the IITs that almost all Indians are so proud of, were a creation of his vision. It was his emphasis on IIS and IIT that brought these institutes to such heights they enjoy today. But not merely the elite institutions, the sarkari schools we see strewn across India were his creation, heck, even the UGC came into being under his ministry.
Please tell us, what other education minister in India ever achieved anything even near to what Azad achieved in a very short span of time in a recently born bloody, chaotic India?
Few in India were as learned as was Maulana to be fit for a post from where they could educate youth of India.
On topic - I cannot understand how Nehru would say such a thing about Maulana Azad who was one of those closest to Nehru, and almost always sided with Nehru whenever a conflict of ideas cropped up between Nehru and Patel.
Your posts have multiple LIES, possible based out of ignorance and popular congress propaganda. Let me correct it one by one.
1. IIT was stared by Maulana Azad.
Ans. WRONG. The whole Idea of IIT was started with a patriotic Parsi Indian called Ardeshir Dalal who was an ICS (old IAS) officer under the British and later joined Tata Steel as director.
He was part of the Viceroy's post war Executive Council as Member-in-Charge of Planning and Development. He was the one who first set up the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and requested the US government to offer hundreds of doctoral fellowships under the Technology Cooperation Mission (TCM) program.
Since this manpower was inadequate, he initiated the idea to set up institutes to train technical staff. N M Sircar who was the member of Education on Vicerory’s Executive Council, first give the idea of IIT.
2. India is illiterate because it is democracy
Ans. WRONG. Kerala is a democracy, yet it is almost 100% literate so is Mizoram. Sri Lanka is a democracy and yet it is almost 100% literate,
Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, USA are all almost 100% literate. Most of them are democracies.
Literacy needs POLITICAL WILL, Not Dictatorship.
3. No need to point to other Education ministers in states where we have 100% literary, is there ? As I said, Maulana azad Failed to put in place a system that will ensure 100% literary in India. Non of his successors did it either.
Conflating Hinduism with India.
Pretty much gives you the right to mark anyone as a traitor if they question Hinduism right? Where have I heard that before?
Islam and Pakistan? No....
anyway.... I am out. I know how the whole song and dance goes. bye
LOL. Weaseling out.
I will catch you the next time you are here to bad mouth Hinduism or India. I know you will do it, and I will be waiting.
Islam and Pakistan. Of course YES. ...........what are you smoking ?
Hindusim and India ..........YES. Which other country in the world has Hindus ?
............new zealand ?
Hindus get to question Hinduism, Non Hindus get to question their own faith. How does that sound ?
Why don't you start questioning christianity and islam too just to show your 'secular' credentials ? ...........strangely I have never seen you do either.
