History
Jamaat-e-Islami was formed on 26 August 1941 at Lahore under the leadership of Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi. After the Partition members of the organization remaining in what became the Republic of India, re-organized themselves to form an independent party, having its own Constitution and separate leadership and organizational structure from Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan. The Indian Jamaat-e-Islami came into being in April 1948 at Allahabad and was officially called "Jamaat-e-Islami Hind". 240 members attended the first meeting and elected Maulana Abul Lais Nadvi as their Amir (leader), and established their Headquarters at Malihabad, Lucknow, U.P. Later, the headquarters was shifted to Rampur in 1949 and then to New Delhi in 1960.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind then underwent a process of reorganization, reframing its Constitution and written policy. The new constitution came into effect in 13 April 1956. The organization held an All-India Meet at Rampur (U.P) in 1951 followed by meetings at Hyderabad (1952) Delhi(1960), Hyderabad(1967), Delhi(1974), Hyderabad(1981), Hyderabad (1997) and Delhi (2002). It has also held regional conferences on various occasions in different parts of the country. The state chapters of the organization also hold separate conferences at regular intervals.
The organization was banned twice by the Government of India during its six decades of existence, the first temporarily during the Emergency of 1975–1977 and then in 1992. While the first was revoked after the Emergency was lifted, the second was reversed by the Supreme Court of India. Issuing its judgement on the ban it remarked about the organization: as "an All India organisation professing a political, secular and spiritual credentials with belief in the oneness of God and universal brotherhood".
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