EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS: ir Syed Ahmed Khan Aligarh Movement.

After the war of Independence 1857, Muslims of United India were in great problems and difficulties. British and Hindus both were crushing the Muslims and their civilization. At that time Sir Syed Ahmed Khan came forward to guide the Muslims of United India. He advised them to get education specially the English language which was the language of their masters at that time. He started a great movement to educate the Muslims of South Asia called Aligarh Movement.

ALIGARH MOVEMENT
The movement which was started by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to Educate the Muslims of sub-continent is called Aligarh Movement. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan wanted to bring closer the Muslims and the British, so that problems and hardships of the Muslims would be reduced. He started Aligarh Movement with high objectives.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF ALIGARH MOVEMNT

Following were the main aims and objectives of Aligarh Movement.

1. CREATION OF GERNAL AWARENESS AMONG THE MUSLIMS:

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan stressed upon the Muslims that their golden era had passed and now they were ruled by the British. They should accept this ground reality, instead of living in past. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan tried to improve a lot of the Muslims.

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2. ESTABLISHING GOODWILL WITH BRITISH:

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan emphasized the need for maintaining friendly relations with the British to earn their goodwill. He also worked to convince the British that the Muslims were loyal to the British. He also realized the British that its role in the war of independence was not up to the mark and they failed to understand the Indian society and its problems.

3. MOTIVATION FOR MODERN KNOWLEDGE:

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was fully convinced that unless Muslims in the sub-continent received education and learnt modern scientific knowledge they will remain backward and will be unable to compete with non-Muslims. He stressed upon them to learn English language to benefit from the scientific knowledge. To achieve this great target he established Scientific Society at Ghazipur in 1862. In this society modern knowledge were translated into Urdu. Later he established a school called M.A.O High School, which was raised to the college and then it became a university called Aligarh Muslim University.

4. NON CONFRONTAL POLITICS:

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan advised the Muslims to keep themselves away from the politics till the time they establish the pleasant relations with Englishmen.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF ALIGARH MOVEMENT

Aligarh Movement became instrumental in the awakening of the Muslims in the sub-continent. A number of prominent personalities like Nawab Mohsin-Ul-Mulk, Nawab Waqar-Ul-Mulk, Molana

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Shible Naumani, Molana Altaf Hussain Hali and Molana Chiragh Hassan played important role in the success of Aligarh Movement.

1. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES:
Aligarh Movement rendered great services to educate the Muslim of United India. For this propose following steps had being taken.

a. Establishment Of Scientific Society:

Scientific Society was established in 1862 at Ghazipur by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to provide scientific knowledge to the Muslims of South Asia.

b. M.A.O High School and college:

Later Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established an English medium School called M.A.O High School. Which was up graded to a college called M.A.O college to provide quality education to the Muslims of India.

c. Aligarh Muslim University:

Later M.A.O College was converted into a big University called Aligarh Muslim University. Many Muslims got education from that University and served the Nation. During Pakistan Movement students of this University played a great role to get a separate home land Pakistan.

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2. REVIVAL OF THE HONOUR OF THE MUSLIMS:

War of Independence 1857 brought untold miseries and problems for the Muslims of South Asia. They were damaged economically and were looked down upon. Aligarh Movement played great role for the revival of the honour of the Muslims.

3. JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR MUSLIMS:

Many Muslims, who got education from Aligarh University got jobs and in this way the economic condition of the Muslim improved.

4. ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSLIM LEAGUE:

Later in 1906, friends of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan who worked in the Aligarh Movement established first political party of the Muslim League at Dacca. Which got Pakistan after a great struggle.

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