Bengal Muslim Renaissance
Bengal Muslim Renaissance
Bengal Muslim Renaissance
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan wrote a monograph, titled, Causes of the Indian
Revolt and he tried to find out the following root causes of the first war
of Independence:
• Non-representation of the Indians in the legislative councils
• Forcible conversion of Indians to Christianity
• Mismanagement of the Indian Army
• British negligence to the Muslims community interests
• And many other ill-advised measures of the Government which created
large scale dissatisfaction among the various sections of society.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s Religious
Reformation
Sir Syed Ahmed’s Educational Reforms
• He pledged with the Muslims to remain loyal to the British and not
participate in the Congress movement. He felt that the Muslim
community should remain aloof from all kinds of political agitation
because by taking active role in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 they had
already placed themselves in danger by arousing British antagonism.
The only path that lay before the Muslims, according to sir Syed, was
that of equipping themselves with English education. He established
the Anglo-Oriental College in 1875 which later became the well-
known Muslim university of Aligarh ( Sayeed, 1967).
DEMANDS AT THE SHIMLA CONFERENCE
SEPARATE
ELECTORATES
MORE JOBS IN
GREATER
CIVIL
WEIGHTAGE IN
SERVICES,
REPRESENTATION
ARMY AND
JUDICIARY
GREATER
SETTING UP WEIGHTAGE IN
MUSLIM MUNICIPALITY,
UNIVERSITIES COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY
Other social reformers at a glance