Blogs
Mazharul Haque: A Forerunner of Right to Education Act
Mazharul Haque alongwith Gokhale and others were demanding Right to Education in 1911.
Christmas & The Indian Freedom Struggle
What people do not appreciate at first is the importance of Christmas week in the formation of the Indian National …Read more »
The Shaheed Pir Ali Commission Report and Its Legacy in Bihar’s History
Pir Ali, a bookbinder from Patna, was one of the first martyrs of the 1857 rebellion against British rule. He …Read more »
The Silent Pen: Waqif Bihari’s Enduring Influence in Urdu Poetry
Unfortunately, the files of these magazines are no longer available, so further works cannot be collected.
Allama Iqbal, Marxism & Islamic Renaissance: A Discussion
Iqbal drew significant inspiration from the Bolshevik Revolution and Marxism, admiring the revolution’s egalitarian ethos, but remaining firmly rooted in …Read more »
Maulana Azad led Silk Letter Movement Was a Secular Effort
These facts establish that Maulana Azad was an active revolutionary, led Silk Letter Movement during the First World War and …Read more »
Jawaharlal Nehru’s First Court Trial and Jail
Nehru: “I do not recognise the British Government in India, and I do not regard this as a court. I …Read more »
Jawaharlal Nehru believed Mental Health a real challenge for the society
"I know you will agree that mental health is in a sense even more important. For mental health, to a …Read more »
Jawaharlal Nehru met the First Prime Minister of India
For briefly though, the First Prime Minister of India and the First Prime Minister of free India were allies of …Read more »
Jawaharlal Nehru & Ghaffar Khan attacked by Pathans in NWFP
Nehru could be saved by the brave effort of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan when he threw himself over Nehru and …Read more »
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 …Read more »
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 …Read more »
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 …Read more »
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 …Read more »
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 …Read more »
Was Sir Syed Ahmad Khan not the founder of Aligarh College? When The Calcutta Review Levelled an Allegation
In all probability, this was one of the earliest examples of sensationalism in the journalism practised in India. The fact …Read more »
Origins of the ‘Traditions’ of Aligarh Muslim University
'Traditions' of AMU as its distinct feature were envisaged by the founders of the university.
Lord Curzon at Aligarh Muslim University
I wish you Godspeed in your career, and I shall always rejoice to hear of the success in life of …Read more »
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s Yemen visit & meeting with Hindu traders
"There were three Hindu temples in Aden, those of Mahadeo, Hanuman, and another, the name of which I have forgotten, …Read more »
Mahatma Gandhi on Israel, Palestine, Jews and Arabs
"But, in my opinion, they (Jews) have erred grievously in seeking to impose themselves on Palestine with the aid of …Read more »
