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Celebrating a Century of Educational Book House: An Enduring Legacy of Literature and Learning in Aligarh

  • Post Author By Dr. Asad Faisal Farooqui
  • Post Date July 27, 2025
Responding to this need, Abdul Shaheed Khan, an alumnus of MAO College Aligarh from Meerut, opened a small stationery shop …Read more  »
Estimated read time 10 min read

Before Ramanujan there was a Ramchundra

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date March 19, 2025
This Indian mathematician was making news in Europe at least three decades before Srinivasa Ramanujan took birth. 
Estimated read time 6 min read

Mazharul Haque: A Forerunner of Right to Education Act

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date January 2, 2025
Mazharul Haque alongwith Gokhale and others were demanding Right to Education in 1911.
Estimated read time 7 min read

Was Sir Syed an advocate of the Two Nation Theory?

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date October 13, 2024
"I have used the word nation several times in this Anjuman. By this I do not mean Muslims only. In …Read more  »
Estimated read time 7 min read

Did Sir Syed Ahmad Khan support Wahhabism?

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date October 12, 2024
"The sects called Wahabees and Bidaties are bitter enemies, that their feelings towards one another are as bitter as were …Read more  »
Estimated read time 5 min read

Aligarh Movement in Bihar: A History of allies of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date October 11, 2024
Syed Imdad Ali wrote to Raja Jaykishan Das, secretary of the Aligarh Scientific Society, requesting that the proposed association at …Read more  »
Estimated read time 4 min read

Aligarh College’s earliest attempt at Women’s education, before Sheikh Abdullah’s College

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date October 10, 2024
"The education imparted would consist, first, of the repetition of the Koran, Urdu reading and writing, and simple arithmetic. In …Read more  »
Estimated read time 2 min read

Was Sir Syed Ahmad Khan not the founder of Aligarh College? When The Calcutta Review Levelled an Allegation

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date October 9, 2024
In all probability, this was one of the earliest examples of sensationalism in the journalism practised in India. The fact …Read more  »
Estimated read time 10 min read

Origins of the ‘Traditions’ of Aligarh Muslim University

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date October 8, 2024
'Traditions' of AMU as its distinct feature were envisaged by the founders of the university.
Estimated read time 3 min read

Lord Curzon at Aligarh Muslim University

  • Post Author By Team HT
  • Post Date October 7, 2024
I wish you Godspeed in your career, and I shall always rejoice to hear of the success in life of …Read more  »
Estimated read time 11 min read

Dr. Chaudhary Wali Mohammad (1886-1968): Life and Contributions

  • Post Author By Dr. Asad Faisal Farooqui
  • Post Date August 26, 2024
In October 1919, Chaudhary Wali Mohammad joined as the Deputy Secretary in the Educational Department, Government of India. He was …Read more  »
Wali Mohammad
Estimated read time 5 min read

When Ismat Chughtai sent Aligarh boys to beat up a local cleric in Aligarh

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date August 25, 2024
Ismat Chughtai responded to Shahid Ahrarwi with an article which was published in Aligarh Gazette calling male students of Aligarh …Read more  »
Ismat Chughtai
Estimated read time 5 min read

When Mahatma Gandhi asked Allama Iqbal to become VC of Jamia Millia Islamia

  • Post Author By Team HT
  • Post Date January 30, 2024
Allama Iqbal Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, declining the offer of Vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh, 29th November 1920.
Estimated read time 2 min read

What did Jayaprakash Narayan think of Aligarh Muslim University?

  • Post Author By Team HT
  • Post Date January 3, 2024
Following is an excerpt from the AMU’s Convocation Address delivered by Jayaparakash Narayan on 10 February 1968. 
Estimated read time 5 min read

CV Raman’s Tribute to the Legacy of Sir Shah Sulaiman

  • Post Author By Team HT
  • Post Date December 17, 2023
Sir Shah Sulaiman received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Allahabad and Aligarh in recognition of his eminent public services …Read more  »
CV Raman and Sir Shah Sulaiman
Estimated read time 3 min read

Ather Siddiqi: Journey as a Zoologist, Scholar, and Urdu Literary Maestro

  • Post Author By Dr. Asad Faisal Farooqui
  • Post Date December 12, 2023
Ather Siddiqi was a researcher of eminence in his field and his research has been nationally and internationally recognised in …Read more  »
Recent image of Ather Siddiqi
Estimated read time 4 min read

Maktaba Jamia reopens, a victim of gross negligence.

  • Post Author By Mohammed Wajihuddin
  • Post Date September 11, 2023
The Maktaba branch at Urdu Bazaar in old Delhi is one of the oldest and has served generations of Urdu …Read more  »
Maktaba jamia delhi
Estimated read time 6 min read

THE UNSUNG PHILANTHROPIST OF INDIA, HAJI MAHOMMED MOHSIN

  • Post Author By Kasturi Ghosh
  • Post Date November 17, 2022
Haji Mahommed Mohsin, a philanthropist, with scholarly zeal and a heart so big it could feed the entire town’s impoverished, …Read more  »
THE UNSUNG PHILANTHROPIST OF INDIA, HAJI MAHOMMED MOHSIN
Estimated read time 3 min read

When Guardians of the Jamia Millia Islamia met in Europe

  • Post Author By Team HT
  • Post Date May 12, 2022
Recalling the events that led to the meeting of the guardians of the Jamia Millia Islamia in Europe in 1925.
The guardians of Jamia Millia Islamia
Estimated read time 3 min read

Syed Ali Hussain – Chief Architect of the Pakistan Public Works Department

  • Post Author By Syed Faizan Raza
  • Post Date May 9, 2022
Syed Ali Hussain, widely regarded as the chief architect of Pakistan's Public Works Department, oversaw the development of Islamabad.
Syed Ali Hussain – Chief Architect of the Pakistan Public Works Department
Estimated read time 2 min read

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