See also:

• SIR

SIR SAYYID AHMAD See also:

• KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

KHAN (1817–1898)  , See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan educationist and reformer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DELHI, DEHLI

Delhi, See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, in, 1817 . He belonged to a See also:

• FAMILY

family which had come to India with the Mahommedan See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest, and had held important offices under the See also:

• MOGUL, MOCHAL, or MIGHAL

Mogul emperors . Although his imperfect acquaintance with See also:

• ENGLISH

English prevented his attainment of higher See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office than that of a See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge of a small cause See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, he earned the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the recognized See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Mahommedan community . To the See also:

• BRITISH

British he rendered loyal service, and when the. See also:

• MUTINY
• MUTINY (from an old verb " mutine," O. Fr. mutin, meutin, a sedition; cf. mod. Fr. emeute; the original is the Late Lat. mota, commotion, from movere, to move)

mutiny reached Bijnor in Rohilkand in May 1857 the British residents owed their lives to his courage and tact . His faithfulness to his See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion was pronounced, and in 1876 he defended the cause of See also:

• ISLAM

Islam in A See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series of Essays on Mahommed, written in See also:

• LONDON

London . He used these advantages to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

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

modern See also:

• EDUCATION

education . The task was no See also:

• LIGHT

light one; for during the first See also:

• HALF

half of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the Mahommedans had kept themselves aloof from English education, and therefore from taking their proper See also:

• PART

part in the British See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, being content to study See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian and Arabic in their own mosques . Sayyid Ahrnad set himself to alter their See also:

• RESOLUTION

resolution . He established a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation society, which became the Scientific Society of See also:

• ALIGARH

Aligarh . He wrote letters from See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England to draw the See also:

• HEARTS

hearts of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East to the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West . In 1878 he founded the Mahommedan Anglo-See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College at Aligarh, and raised funds for the buildings of which See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON, BULWERLYTTON, 1ST BARON (1803-1873)
• LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT

Lytton laid the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation-See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone . He stimulated a similar See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement elsewhere, and among other cities See also:

• KARACHI, or KURRACHEE

Karachi, Bombay and See also:

• HYDERABAD, HAIDARABAD
• HYDERABAD, or HAIDARABAD

Hyderabad caught the infection of his spirit .

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

councils of India and See also:

• ALLAHABAD

Allahabad, and of the education See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission . He died at Aligarh on the and of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1898 . See Lieut.-See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel G . F . I . See also:

• GRAHAM, SIR GERALD (1831–1899)
• GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE
• GRAHAM, SYLVESTER (1794-1851)
• GRAHAM, THOMAS (1805-1869)

Graham, The See also:

• LIFE

Life and See also:

• WORK

Work of See also:

• SIR

Sir Saiyad Ahmed See also:

• KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

Khan (1885) . (W .