REQUIRED WORK:

*Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf, "Civil Society, Colonial Constraints, 1885-1919," A Concise History of India, Chapter 5, pp. 123-164.

*David Lelyveld, "Growing Up Sharif," pp. 35-56 (Part One of Chapter Two, "Sharif Culture and British Rule"), Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978): on the CU website.

*Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Chapters One and Two of From Purdah to Parliament (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998): on the CU website.

*Altaf Husain Hali, "On the Founding of Aligarh M.A.O. College," from Hayat-i-Javed; A Biography of Sir Sayyid, trans. by David J. Mathews (New Delhi: Rupa and Co, 1994), pp. 220-248. BUTLER RESERVE. Also: this passage on the CU website.

*Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, "Syed Ahmed Khan's Speech at Lucknow, 28 September 1887": on the CU website.

*Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, "Syed Ahmed Khan's Speech at Meerut, 16 March 1888": on the CU website.

*Rev. John F. Hurst, "A Native Publishing House in India,"  in Harper's New Monthly Magazine 75 (June-Nov 1887), pp. 352-356: at the Cornell Univ. Library site. (Note that you can enlarge the type if you wish.)

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POSSIBLE PAPER TOPIC NINE:

Consider the biography of Sir Sayyid called Hayat-i-Javed ("An Immortal Life"). It is a literary work by a notable reformist, writer, and friend of Sir Sayyid's, Altaf Husain "Hali" (1837-1914). ("Hali," his pen-name, means "Modern.") Do you think Hali is promoting any special agenda of his own? Does his treatment of Sir Sayyid's life amount to mere hero-worship and hagiography, or do you see more thoughtful and analytical strands in it? For what, if anything, does he criticize Sir Sayyid? Source: Altaf Husain Hali, Hayat-i-Javed; A Biography of Sir Sayyid, trans. by David J. Mathews (New Delhi: Rupa and Co, 1994).
 

 
 FURTHER RESOURCES:
 

ONLINE BOOKS:

*Kenneth W. Jones, ed., Religious Controversy in British India: Dialogues in South Asian Languages (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992): online through NetLibrary. Once within their system, you can to go the exact location.

*Antoinette M. Burton, At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Great Britain (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1998): online through NetLibrary. Once within their system, you can go to the exact location.
 

ONLINE ARTICLES:

*Edwin Lord Weeks, "Lahore and the Punjab," in Harper's New  Monthly Magazine 89,33 (June-Nov. 1894), pp. 650-672. An illustrated general article, though unfortunately p.651 is missing: at  the Cornell Univ. library website.

*Edwin Lord Weeks, "Hindoo and Moslem," in Harper's New Monthly Magazine 91,544 (Oct 1895) pp. 651-670: at the Cornell Univ. library site.

*More on Sir Sayyid:  Daniel W. Brown, "Islamic Modernism in South Asia--a Reassessment": at the Mount Holyoke website.

*Ghalib replies to Sir Sayyid's request for a preface to a new edition of the A'in-e Akbari, with a *pro-British poem*
 

WEBSITES:

*The home page of Aligarh Muslim University, founded by Sir Sayyid: Aligarh Muslim University. 
    =A related site: AMU alumni. 
    =the best photo gallery on Aligarh Muslim University, maintained by "Shahid H": Shahid's photos of Aligarh.