نو آبادیاتی ہندوستان میں حقوقِ نسواں کا علمبردار: مولوی ممتاز علی

This paper explains the role of Maulvi Mumtaz Ali in advocating the Women's Rights in late 19th and early 20th century India. A close associate of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and contemporary of Hali and Deputy Nazir Ahmad, Maulvi Mumtaz Ali and Sheikh Abdullah of Aligarh brought women's home journals and through them advocated women's rights including their educational rights. The paper suggests that Maulvi Mumtaz Ali suffered a lot as he appointed his wife Muhammadi begum the editor of journal Tehzeeb-Un-Niswan, launched in 1898. He strongly believed in gender equality in all spheres of life. His book "Huqooq -e-Niswan" (Women's rights) covers the vast themes of -the false superiority of male over female; women's education, purdah (Veil), marriage system and social patterns between husband and wife. He denounced the men's false superiority, physical as well as intellectual over the women. The paper explores his support to women's education. He also elaborates the debate on purdah and its violence on women by the Muslim society of colonial India