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Aligarh is a city of Uttar Pradesh that has both educational and commercial value. Its value started with the founding of Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and grew into the launch pad of nationalist movements in India.
With this college, a new breed of educated Muslims was produced who had notable parts in the functioning of the government and its authorities. The college was built with the intention of building a college following British education system, with no compromise on Islamic values. He maintained that there was no need to be proficient in English and ‘Western Sciences’ to reach terms of the changing reality. He wanted Muslims to gain modern education and get involved in public life. Raja Jai Kishan helped him in this venture so that Muslims could replace Persians in Government employment and languages of Courts of Law. The present Aligarh Muslim University is this college that was transformed into a university in 1920. There are more than 250 courses in both traditional and modern education with about thirty thousand students and over two thousand faculty members. This University is today a premier educational institution in both India and Asia. It is in fact, the second largest Muslim University in the world, second to the Al Azhar University of Cairo. Aligarh is an important business center famous for its lock industry which is exported over the world. Its lock industry is old and had started during the era of Moguls while it was the British who had streamlined it into an organized industry. You find different types, kinds and sizes of locks that are found in abundance on Railway Road and Center Point Markets. Aligarh is also famous for its Brass hardware and sculptures which are found in all shapes and sizes. Aligarh pajamas too are famous for its qualities which have no parallels in India. |
