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Section 6, top margin D, right margin b |
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Some Aligarhians, late 1860's to early 1870's, in whose midst the College took shape |
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TION* |
Aligarh M.A.O. College was part of a wide spectrum of traditional and modernizing educational processes |
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Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898)
was a
man as remarkable and influential in his own way as Gandhi; if he
hadn't
existed, it would have been hard to invent him: *his writings
and thoughts* |
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Victoria Gate at Aligarh, still displaying the original seal of the "Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College"; the College was the great project of Sir Sayyid's life |
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Strachey Hall, a World Heritage site, also displays a seal |
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of BHOPAL* |
A women's school was added in 1907; when the College became a University in 1920, its first chancellor was Sultan Shah Jahan Begam, the reigning Begam of Bhopal |
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"Bab-e Sayyid," opening onto the
campus
of today's Aligarh Muslim University; the *AMU taranah (college
song)* |
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The campus of course has a Jama Masjid; Sir Sayyid's simple tomb is in its compound |
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How students today get around within the sprawling Aligarh campus |
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Three views of Maulana Azad Library |
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Shahid H. arrives on campus (2000), in a classic vignette |