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The fast-track court of civil judge (senior division) in Varanasi has scheduled Mar 18 for the hearing of a plea filed by Lohta-resident Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari. Ansari has requested to be made a party in the Gyanvapi original suit titled 'Ancient Idol of Swamyambhu Lord Vishweshwar vs Anjuman Intezamia Masjid (AIM)' and others. Advocate Vijay Shankar Rastogi has objected to the plea.
A standard narrative exists about the role of Muslims during the Partition in India, which talks about how the Muslim community, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his Muslim League, stood for the two-nation theory and demanded the Partition of India. Historical documents, however, suggest that a majority of the Muslims opposed the Partition and stayed in India.
A historic artform tracing its descent from the Mughal era, zari-zardozi has for long served as a livelihood to a majority of the Muslim population in the city of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. However, for the past few years, this shimmery domestic industry has been in the dark, having left in gloom thousands of workers in the city.
Dr Zakir Husain, the first Muslim President of India and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, was born on 8 February, 1897 in Hyderabad Deccan where his father Fida Husain had settled leaving his ancestral place Qaimganj in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh.