Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (Urdu: جماعتِ اسلامی ہند, Hindi: जमात-ए-इस्लामी हिन्द) is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India. It is an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a party committed to the establishment of an Islamic state in Pakistan ruled by sharīʿah law, which split into separate independent organizations in India, Pakistan, Bangaladesh and Jammu and Kashmir following the Partition of India in 1947. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was officially formed in April 1948, at a meeting in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The organization projects Islam as "the practical doctrine and programme that can take the place of the failed man-made creeds of the 20th century". It follows a policy of promoting education, social service, and ecumenical outreach to the community and has involved itself in various humanitarian and relief efforts across many parts of India.

In its early years, it had condemned as haram (religiously forbidden) both secularism and democracy but later ideological transformations led to the acceptance of both secularism and democracy in post-colonial India. During the mid-1980s allowed its members to vote in elections in India. On 18 April 2011, it launched a political party Welfare Party of India, under a leadership that included both top functionaries of the organization and members from the wider Muslim community and outside, including a Christian priest.

The Government of India twice banned the organization though both decisions were revoked later after favourable rulings from the Supreme Court of India.