Moulana Obaidullah Sindhi - (1872-1944)

One of the chief architects of the Silk Letter Movement, Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi was a devout student of Shaykh al-Hind. In the first decade of the twentieth century, the duo plunged headlong into revolutionary activities with the aim of securing freedom for their country and the formation of Jamīat al-Ansār. Much of his younger life was spent in garnering support from outside of India and he returned to his nation only in 1939. Sindhi strongly believed that the future of India lay in the unity of Hindus and Muslims. He also accepted that the Congress had the strength and maturity required to present a secular front to the international community, and was needed as a mechanism to maintain unity between Hindus and Muslims. Although a revolutionary his entire life, he stood for liberty, economic equality, social progress and political awareness of society.