Somewhere between these two extremes was Abul Kalam Azad, an Indian Muslim leader and political activist. Azad expressed in a Muslim newspaper that the lack of centrism Muslims showed on adopting western culture sickened him. Azad criticized both extremes, the fundamentalist religious leaders who refused to advance and the western-educated modernists who refused to associate with Islam and traditional Indian-Muslim culture. Azad’s opinion was one shared by many in India and even some British that westernization helped India and that it could be completed without renouncing one’s cultural roots (Doc. 5). There was many different reactions towards western culture in India, but most believed in some form of compromise between westernization and retention of cultural and religious
Somewhere between these two extremes was Abul Kalam Azad, an Indian Muslim leader and political activist. Azad expressed in a Muslim newspaper that the lack of centrism Muslims showed on adopting western culture sickened him. Azad criticized both extremes, the fundamentalist religious leaders who refused to advance and the western-educated modernists who refused to associate with Islam and traditional Indian-Muslim culture. Azad’s opinion was one shared by many in India and even some British that westernization helped India and that it could be completed without renouncing one’s cultural roots (Doc. 5). There was many different reactions towards western culture in India, but most believed in some form of compromise between westernization and retention of cultural and religious