Aims and objectives
Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) emerged from the cusp of the Non-Cooperation Movement & Khilafat movements led by Gandhi, Shaukat Ali and Maulana Mohammad Ali. Founded in 1820, the new institution became a crucible of experiments around education and decolonised secularism aspiring to address the needs of the future independent nation. The collections that the Jamia Premchand Archives & Literary Centre (JPALC) seeks to preserve with the EAP grant are a valuable primary source repository of this history. The material that EAP1630 seeks to preserve predates 1950 and fall into two broad sets. The first comprises collections belonging to the founders of JMI who were also prominent national leaders. The second set of materials are the collections of literary stalwarts whose works provide a rich and vibrant account of the socio-cultural milieu in which Jamia was born.
