Abul Kalam Azad, India's first Minister of Education, was born in Makkah, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, in 1888.
Maulana Azad was born on November 11, 1888, in Makkah, Hejaz vilayet, Ottoman Empire, now Mecca, Saudi Arabia. During the Indian independence movement, he was an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, independence activist, and senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He also became the Indian government's first Minister of Education.
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