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See also: Mahommedan educationist and reformer, was See also: born at See also: Delhi, See also: India, in, 1817
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He belonged to a See also: family which had come to India with the Mahommedan See also: conquest, and had held important offices under the See also: Mogul emperors
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Although his imperfect acquaintance with See also: English prevented his attainment of higher office than that of a See also: judge of a small cause See also: court, he earned the title of the recognized See also: leader of the Mahommedan community
.
To the See also: British he rendered loyal service, and when the. See also: mutiny reached Bijnor in Rohilkand in May 1857 the British residents owed their lives to his courage and tact
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His faithfulness to his See also: religion was pronounced, and in 1876 he defended the cause of See also: Islam in A Series of Essays on Mahommed, written in See also: London
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He used these advantages to See also: act as interpreter between the Mahommedans and their rulers, and to rouse his co-religionists to a sense of the benefits of See also: modern See also: education
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The task was no See also: light one; for during the first See also: half of the 19th century the Mahommedans had kept themselves aloof from English education, and therefore from taking their proper See also: part in the British administration, being content to study Persian and Arabic in their own mosques
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Sayyid Ahrnad set himself to alter their See also: resolution
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He established a See also: translation society, which became the Scientific Society of See also: Aligarh
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He wrote letters from See also: England to draw the See also: hearts of the See also: East to the West
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In 1878 he founded
the Mahommedan Anglo-See also: Oriental See also: College at Aligarh, and raised funds for the buildings of which See also: Lord See also: Lytton laid the foundation-See also: stone
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He stimulated a similar
See also: movement elsewhere, and among other cities See also: Karachi, Bombay and Hyderabad caught the infection of his spirit
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Thus he effected a revolution in the attitude of Mahommedans towards modern education . He was made K.C.S.I., and became a member of the legislative See also: councils of India and See also: Allahabad, and of the education commission
.
He died at Aligarh on the and of See also: March 1898
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See also: Graham, The See also: Life and See also: Work of See also: Sir Saiyad Ahmed Khan (1885)
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