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The ascendency of the British in India after the revolt of 1857 brought Sir Syed Ahmad Khan to the forefront of Muslim politics. He evaluated the causes of the Mutiny and realised that there was a huge gulf between the rulers and the ruled. The Muslims were blamed for the uprising and this reduced them to sheer poverty. He decided to take a stand and to fight for their rights. But they were not ready to stand for themselves. They called him names and issued Fatwa ...
The Mohammadan Educational Conference was founded by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1886 to strengthen the Aligarh movement and disseminate education among the Muslims in every nook and corner of the country. It had its annual sessions all over India and invited the co-operation of the local people and assessed the activities of the movement. It led the Aligarh Muslim University movement vigorously and got it. Most of the Government decision about Muslim education were ...
It is more than a century when Sir Syed founded the Aligarh School to dessiminate modern education among Muslims in India. Education was the goal to be achieved in the beginning but later by the turn of the century it imbibed the ideals of nationalism and spearheaded the national movement along with Mahatma Gandhi and other nationalists. This continued till 1937 and when the Congress ministries in some of the provinces mal-treated the Muslims, a section of the ...
Glimpses of Muslim Education in India traces the growth and development of modern education among the Muslim community of the sub-continent. In moulding ideas of his conservative community from medievalism to modernism Sri Syed had played a vital role. Had he not been there, Muslims would have stayed in the medieval age even today. The MAO college founded by him was the nucleus for disseminating western education among the Muslims. The college was raised to the ...