IAFS 1000 19 th Century India: Debating Muslim Education.
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IAFS 1000
19th Century India:Debating Muslim Education
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Outline
• 1857 Uprising
• Indian Muslim debates re. education
–Aligarh
–Deoband
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Muslim Debates over Education
• two schools: Aligarh and Deoband
• significance: diversity of Indian Muslims
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1857 “Mutiny”/War of Independence/Uprising
• Significance: Br distrust of Muslims
• Landlords, peasants, disinherited princes
• Threat to Indian Army
• 1858: British Crown takeover
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Aligarh: MuhammadanAnglo-Oriental College (est 1875)• Founded by Sir Syed Ahmed
Khan• Modeled on British schools• Both Muslim and Hindu
students• Training for Muslim leaders• Combined Islamic and
Western education
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Syed Ahmed Khan• Islam need not be hostile to Christianity• Hindus and Muslims not inherently
incompatible: “India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussalmans”
• Harmony depended on British rule: “for the peace of India . . . the English Government should remain for many years—in fact for ever!”
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Deoband (est. 1867)
• Purifying Islam
• Traditional Muslim education (based in Wahhabi traditions)
• Middle- and lower-class Muslims
• No British support
• Largely apolitical
• Seen as a guardian of Islam
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Themes
• 1857 uprising led to British distrust of Muslims
• Indian Muslims never a monolithic group (e.g. Aligarh vs. Deoband)