Why did Abdus Salam donate his Nobel Prize to AMU?
In December 1979, Pakistan got its first Nobel. Dr. Abdus Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with
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Heritage Times
Exploring lesser known History
Aligarh Muslim University
Mughal hatred is a colonial construct
And the communal seed that has been sown in our hearts, in our lives by the British needs to be taken apart, needs to be called out.
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AMU to Freedom Movement: Mohammad Irtaza Hussain (1905-1966)
Arrested on August 9, 1942, alongside fellow leaders including Babu Banarsi Das, he was initially detained at Bulandshahr District Jail before being moved to Bareilly Central Jail. His incarceration later took him to Naini Jail in Allahabad, where he was imprisoned alongside prominent figures such as Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (1894-1954), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966), and Gobind Sahai (190-1967).
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Journey of an AMU Student who became the Father of Indian molecular biology
Siddiqi, along with several student activists and a supportive faculty member, including Khalil Rahman, secretary of the Progressive Writer’s Association, Mirza Mumtaz Hussain, President of the students’ Federation, S.M. Tonki was arrested because of his leading role in the movement.
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Sir Syed was against cow slaughter
“I have repeatedly given my community to understand that it is a folly to annoy our Hindu brothers by resorting to cowslaughter.”
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan on Ottoman Caliph or Turkish Sultan
“History also proves that whenever a Mohammedan sovereign assumed the title of Caliph his Caliphate extended only to the extent of his dominions and his subjects. A country beyond the range of his government had nothing to do with his Caliphate, Imamate and Sultanate.”
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Was Sir Syed an advocate of the Two Nation Theory?
“I have used the word nation several times in this Anjuman. By this I do not mean Muslims only. In my opinion all men are one and I do not like religion, community or group to be identified with a nation.”
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Did Sir Syed Ahmad Khan support Wahhabism?
“The sects called Wahabees and Bidaties are bitter enemies, that their feelings towards one another are as bitter as were those of the Roman Catholics towards the Protestants in the days of the Reformation.”
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Aligarh Movement in Bihar: A History of allies of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Syed Imdad Ali wrote to Raja Jaykishan Das, secretary of the Aligarh Scientific Society, requesting that the proposed association at Muzaffarpur be made a branch of the Aligarh Scientific Society.
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Aligarh College’s earliest attempt at Women’s education, before Sheikh Abdullah’s College
“The education imparted would consist, first, of the repetition of the Koran, Urdu reading and writing, and simple arithmetic. In addition to reading . This and writing they would be taught the elements of domestic economy, especially cooking and, sanitation; they would also learn sewing of all kinds…”
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When Mahatma Gandhi visited Aligarh Muslim University & Jamia Millia Islamia was born
An appeal was made to the Muslim University of Aligarh and the Hindu University of Benares to refuse Government grants and tear to pieces the ‘Charters’ granted them by the Government.
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