Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari - Revision history

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	\| successor2 = [[Maulana Hasrat Mohani]]		\| successor2 = [[Maulana Hasrat Mohani]]
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=yes\|1880\|12\|25}}<ref name=britannica/>		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=yes\|1880\|12\|25}}<ref name=britannica/>
	\| birth_place = [[Mohammadabad, Ghazipur]], India		\| birth_place = [[Mohammadabad, Ghazipur\|Mohammadabad]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British India]]
	\| death_date = 10 May 1936 (aged 55)		\| death_date = 10 May 1936 (aged 55)
	\| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]		\| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[British India]]
	\| death_cause = Heart attack		\| death_cause = Heart attack
	\| resting_place = [[Jamia Millia Islamia]]		\| resting_place = [[Jamia Millia Islamia]]
	~~\| residence = Palatial house~~
	\| nationality = [[India]]n		\| nationality = [[India]]n
	\| party = [[Indian National Congress]]		\| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
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	In 1898, while a student in Madras, Ansari attended his first All India Congress Sessions, which was presided over by [[Anandamohan Bose\|AnandaMohan Bose]]. In 1927, when the Sessions were held again in Madras, Ansari presided over the session <ref name=TheHindu>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/The-Ansari-connection/article15373664.ece The Ansari connection]. ''The Hindu''. Updated 10 October 2016</ref>		In 1898, while a student in Madras, Ansari attended his first All India Congress Sessions, which was presided over by [[Anandamohan Bose\|AnandaMohan Bose]]. In 1927, when the Sessions were held again in Madras, Ansari presided over the session <ref name=TheHindu>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/The-Ansari-connection/article15373664.ece The Ansari connection]. ''The Hindu''. Updated 10 October 2016</ref>

	Dr. Ansari became involved in the [[Indian Independence Movement]] during his stay in England. He moved back to [[Delhi]] and joined both the [[Indian Congress]] and the [[All-India Muslim League\|Muslim League]]. He played an important role in the negotiation of the [[1916 Lucknow Pact]] and served as the Muslim League's president in 1918 and 1920.<ref name="britannica.com">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukhtar-Ahmad-Ansari</ref> He was an outspoken supporter of the [[Khilafat Movement\|Khilafat movement]],<ref name=TheHindu/> 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, Vol. 45, No. 3, 393–406, May 2009)		Dr. Ansari became involved in the [[Indian Independence Movement]] during his stay in England. He moved back to [[Delhi]] and joined both the [[Indian Congress]] and the [[All-India Muslim League\|Muslim League]]. He played an important role in the negotiation of the [[1916 Lucknow Pact]] and served as the Muslim League's president in 1918 and 1920.<ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukhtar-Ahmad-Ansari\|title=Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari \| Indian physician and nationalist}}</ref> He was an outspoken supporter of the [[Khilafat Movement\|Khilafat movement]],<ref name=TheHindu/> 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, Vol. 45, No. 3, 393–406, May 2009)

	Ansari served several terms as the AICC General Secretary, as well as the President of the Indian National Congress during its 1927 session.<ref name="britannica.com"/> As a result of in-fighting and political divisions within the League in the 1920s, and later the rise of [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] and Muslim separatism, Ansari drew closer to [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and the [[Indian National Congress\|Congress Party]]. {{Citation needed\|date=August 2010}}		Ansari served several terms as the AICC General Secretary, as well as the President of the Indian National Congress during its 1927 session.<ref name="britannica.com"/> As a result of in-fighting and political divisions within the League in the 1920s, and later the rise of [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] and Muslim separatism, Ansari drew closer to [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and the [[Indian National Congress\|Congress Party]]. {{Citation needed\|date=August 2010}}
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	*[[Sibakatullah Ansari]]		*[[Sibakatullah Ansari]]
	*[[Afzal Ansari]]		*[[Afzal Ansari]]
	*[[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]], former [[Vice President of India]]~~. Contrary to general belief~~, he is ~~not a grandson of Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari. In fact, he is the grandson of a brother of~~ Ansari.<ref name=TheHindu/>		*[[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]], former [[Vice President of India]], is Ansari's grand-nephew.<ref name=TheHindu/>

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
|honorific-prefix =
| image = Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari 1980 stamp of India.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| order =
| office = President of the [[Indian National Congress]]
| term_start = 1927
| term_end = 1928
| predecessor = [[S. Srinivasa Iyengar]]
| successor = [[Motilal Nehru]]
| office1 = [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of [[Jamia Millia Islamia]]
| term_start1 = 1928
| term_end1 = 1936<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/Past_Chancellors_Profile-15/Dr_Mukhtar_Ahmad_Ansari-2178|title= Past Chancellors' Profile|website=jmi.ac.in|access-date=30 October 2018}}</ref>
| predecessor1 = [[Hakim Ajmal Khan]]
| successor1 = [[Abdul Majeed Khwaja]]
| office2 = President of the [[All-India Muslim League]]
| term_start2 = 1920
| term_end2 = 1921
| predecessor2 = [[Hakim Ajmal Khan]]
| successor2 = [[Maulana Hasrat Mohani]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1880|12|25}}<ref name=britannica/>
| birth_place = [[Mohammadabad, Ghazipur]], India
| death_date = 10 May 1936 (aged 55)
| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| death_cause = Heart attack
| resting_place = [[Jamia Millia Islamia]]
| residence = Palatial house
| nationality = [[India]]n
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| other_names =
| alma_mater = [[Madras Medical College]]
| known_for = Founder of [[Jamia Millia Islamia]], [[Indian independence movement]], President of the [[Indian National Congress]], President of the [[All-India Muslim League]]
| notable_works =
| children =
| family =
| occupation = [[Physician]], [[politician]], activist
}}

'''Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari''' (25 December 1880 – 10 May 1936) was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the [[Indian National Congress]] and the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] during the [[Indian Independence Movement]]. One of the founders of the [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] University he remained its chancellor 1928 to 1936.<ref name=britannica>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ahmad-Ansari Profile of Ahmed Ansari]. Encyclopaedia Britannica</ref><ref name="ja"/><ref name="cs">{{cite web|url=http://www.congresssandesh.com/AICC/history/presidents/dr_m_a_ansari.htm|title=Dr M A Ansari (1880–1936) president, Madras, 1927|publisher=Congress Sandesh, [[Indian National Congress]] publication |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020307133839/http://www.congresssandesh.com/AICC/history/presidents/dr_m_a_ansari.htm |archive-date=7 March 2002 |access-date=16 December 2016}}</ref>

==Early life and medical career==
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was born on 25 December 1880 in Yusufpur-[[Mohammadabad, Ghazipur|Mohammadabad]] town in eastern [[Uttar Pradesh]]).<ref name="cs"/>

Educated at the Victoria School, Ansari and his family moved to [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]. Ansari obtained a medical degree from the [[Madras Medical College]] and went to [[England]] on scholarship studies.<ref name="cs"/> He achieved the M.D. and M.S. degrees in 1905.<ref name="cs"/> In 1910 Ansari earned a [[Master of Surgery]] (ChM) from the [[University of Edinburgh]] for his thesis ''Treatment of syphilis by arylarsonates with special reference to recent research''.<ref>{{Cite book|hdl=1842/19716|author=Ansari, M.A.|date=1910|title=Treatment of syphilis by arylarsonates with special reference to recent research|publisher=PhD thesis, Edinburgh Medical School}}</ref> 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,<ref name=TheHindu/> in honour of his work.

From 1921 to 1935, Ansari visited Vienna, Paris, Lucerne and London to meet with famed urologists, including Robert Lichtenstern, [[Eugen Steinach]] and Serge Voronoff, some of the pioneers of grafting animal testicles onto humans. In the last decade of his life, Ansari performed over 700 such grafting operations, meticulously recording 440 of them. From these experiments he published his book ''Regeneration of Man'', which he shared with his close friend Mahatma Gandhi.<ref>[https://scroll.in/article/836753/meet-the-freedom-fighter-who-grafted-animal-testicles-onto-humans-as-part-of-nation-building Dr Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was a freedom fighter who also grafted animal testicles onto humans]. Scroll.in (10 May 2017). Retrieved on 12 December 2018.</ref>

==Nationalist activities==

In 1898, while a student in Madras, Ansari attended his first All India Congress Sessions, which was presided over by [[Anandamohan Bose|AnandaMohan Bose]]. In 1927, when the Sessions were held again in Madras, Ansari presided over the session <ref name=TheHindu>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/The-Ansari-connection/article15373664.ece The Ansari connection]. ''The Hindu''. Updated 10 October 2016</ref>

Dr. Ansari became involved in the [[Indian Independence Movement]] during his stay in England. He moved back to [[Delhi]] and joined both the [[Indian Congress]] and the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]]. He played an important role in the negotiation of the [[1916 Lucknow Pact]] and served as the Muslim League's president in 1918 and 1920.<ref name="britannica.com">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukhtar-Ahmad-Ansari</ref> He was an outspoken supporter of the [[Khilafat Movement|Khilafat movement]],<ref name=TheHindu/> 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, Vol. 45, No. 3, 393–406, May 2009)

Ansari served several terms as the AICC General Secretary, as well as the President of the Indian National Congress during its 1927 session.<ref name="britannica.com"/> As a result of in-fighting and political divisions within the League in the 1920s, and later the rise of [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] and Muslim separatism, Ansari drew closer to [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]]. {{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

Ansari was one of the Foundation Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia and also served as the chancellor of the [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] university in [[Delhi]] soon after the death of its primary founder, [[Hakim Ajmal Khan]] in 1927.<ref name="ja">[http://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/historical_note-13 History and profile of Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi (vice-chancellor Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari in 1927)], jmi.ac.in. Retrieved 24 August 2017</ref>

==Personal life==
Ansari lived in a palatial house, called the ''Darus Salaam'' or ''Abode of peace.'' [[Mahatma Gandhi]] was a frequent guest when he visited Delhi, and the house was a regular base for Congress political activities.

Ansari died in 1936 en route from [[Mussoorie]] to [[Delhi]] on a train due to a heart attack. He is buried within the premises of [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] university in Delhi.

===Progeny===
Many members of Ansari's family remained in India after [[Partition of India|partition]] in 1947, and became politicians in free India. His immediate progeny and family members include:
*[[Mukhtar Ansari]]. Named in honour of his grandfather, Mukhtar Jr. is the member of the Uttar Pradesh state legislature from the Mau constituency. He won the election in 2017 on a [[Bahujan Samajwadi Party|BSP]] ticket. He was the prime accused in the Krishnanand Rai murder case among other crimes, and spent 13 years in jail. He was released on 3 July 2019, after witnesses against him turned hostile.[10][11]
*[[Sibakatullah Ansari]]
*[[Afzal Ansari]]
*[[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]], former [[Vice President of India]]. Contrary to general belief, he is not a grandson of Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari. In fact, he is the grandson of a brother of Ansari.<ref name=TheHindu/>

==Honours==
Ansari Road in [[Daryaganj]], old [[Delhi]] is named after him.<ref name=TheHindu/>
Ansari Nagar near AIIMS, New Delhi has also been named after him.

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