Background
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was born on December 25, 1880 in Yusufpur-Mohammadabad town,(now part in Eastern Uttar Pradesh).
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Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was born on December 25, 1880 in Yusufpur-Mohammadabad town,(now part in Eastern Uttar Pradesh).
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One of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia University he remained its Chancellor 1928 to 1936. Educated at the Victoria School, Ansari and his family moved to Hyderabad. Ansari obtained a medical degree from the Madras Medical College and went to England on scholarship studies.
He was a top-class student and worked at the London Lock Hospital and the Charing Cross Hospital in London.
He was an Indian pioneer in surgery, and today there is an Ansari Ward in the Charing Cross Hospital, London, in honour of his work. Doctor Ansari became involved in the Indian Independence Movement during his stay in England.
He played an important role in the negotiation of the 1916 Lucknow Pact and served as the League"s president in 1918 and 1920. He was an outspoken supporter of the Khilafat movement, and led the Indian medical mission to treat the wounded Turkish soldiers during the Balkan Wars.
(Syed Tanvir Wasti, The Indian Red Crescent Mission to the Balkan Wars, Middle Eastern Studies, Volume(s) 45, Number 3, 393–406, May 2009)
Doctor Ansari served several terms as the Italian Association for Cells Culture General Secretary, as well as the President of the Indian National Congress during its 1927 session.
The Ansaris lived in a palatial house, called the Darus Salaam or Abode of Peace in Urdu. The Ansaris would often host Mahatma Gandhi when he visited Delhi, and the house was a regular base for Congress political activities. He enjoyed an intimate friendship with the Mahatma.
Doctor Ansari died in 1936 en route from Mussoorie to Delhi on a train due to a heart attack, and is buried in the premises of the Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi.
However, he never stopped practising medicine, and often came to the aid of Indian political leaders and the Indian princely order. Doctor Ansari was very close to Mahatma Gandhi and an adherent of Gandhism, with his core teachings of ahimsa and non-violent civil resistance.