Our History
1894
01 — 06
Founded in Cambridge in 1894
Founded in Cambridge in 1894, then 1896 in Oxford, as policy making assemblies for Hindustani members of The Universities (modern day Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) to interrogate the principles of imperialism, the first modern Majlises expanded from a minority political association into ‘an intellectual engine of independence’, and then ‘a political behemoth that in the decades to come, fostered generations of anti-imperial activists, becoming a cradle of youthful rebellion of the new age and heroic, freedom-loving defiance from Malaysia to Morocco’.
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