Happy sir syyed day THE FOUNDER- SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, one of the architects of modern India was born on October 17, 1817 at Delhi. He was one of those early pioneers who recognized the critical role of education for the empowerment of the poor and backward Muslim community. In more than one ways Sir Syed was one of the greatest social reformers and a great national builder of modern India. He began to prepare the road map for the formation of a Muslim University by starting various schools. He instituted Scientific Society in 1863 to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language. The Aligarh Institute Gazette, an organ of the Scientific Society was started in March 1866 and succeeded in transforming the minds in the traditional Muslim Society. Anyone with an average level of commitment would have backed off in the face of strong opposition but Sir Syed responded by bringing out another journal Tehzibul Akhlaq which was rightly named in English as �Mohammedan Social Reformer. In 1875, Sir Syed founded the Madarsatul Uloom in Aligarh and patterned the MAO College after Oxford and Cambridge universities that he visited on a trip to London in 1869. His objective was to build a college in tune with the British education system but without compromising its Islamic values. He wanted this College to act as a bridge between the old and the new, the East and the West. The aim of Sir Syed was not merely restricted to establishing a college at Aligarh but at spreading a network of Muslim managed educational institutions throughout the length and breadth of the country. Keeping in view this, he instituted All India Muslim Educational Conference in 1886 that revived the spirit of Muslims at national level. It was the first of its kind of such Muslim NGO in India, which awakened the Muslims from their deep slumber and infused social and political awareness among them. He contributed much to the development of the modern society of the subcontinent. During Sir Syeds own life time, The Englishman, a renowned British magazine of the 19 th century remarked in a note on November 17, 1885: Sir Syed�s life strikingly illustrated one of the best phases of modern history. He died on March 27, 1898 and lies buried next to the main Mosque at AMU.
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