EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Muhammedan Educational Congress was founded in 1886. It was renamed the Muhammedan Educational Conference in 1890. The first conclave of the organisation was held in December 1886 at Aligarh and was presided by Maulvi Samiullah Khan.

Detailed explanation-2: -It became a platform for Indian Muslim intelligentsia to mobilize Indian Muslim masses to promote education and specially modern and western education. They can clear there doubt and misconceptions about western and modern education. The conferences were much more than a gathering of Muslim educationist.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aligarh Movement was the push to establish a modern system of Western–style scientific education for the Muslim population of British India, during the later decades of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, one of the architects of modern India was born on October 17, 1817, in Delhi and started his career as a civil servant. The 1857 revolt was one of the turning points in Syed Ahmed’s life.