Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was renowned for his intellectual, political, educational and religious mind.He was supposed to be a "Think Tank" of Muslims as he was the major formulator of the concept of the "Two-Nation Theory" among Muslims of India in the latter half of the 19th century. He gathered all Muslims at one Platform through his campaign of Enlightening Muslims with education he wanted to make Muslims explore their minds from literature, science and technology. To attain that cause he founded "The Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh.
Born in a leading family of Syeds in Delhi in 1817, Syed Ahmad was raised in the religious and cultural style of the Mughal literati and scholastic tradition associated with Shah Wali-Ullah. In defiance of the wishes of his elders, he took service as a subordinate official of the British regime in 1836 and spent the next forty years of his life posted in a series of small North Indian towns. At the same time, he took seriously to writing books and pamphlets which established his reputation as a writer and thinker.
During the 1857 Revolt, he remained a staunch supporter of British rule, but afterwards published a sharp critique of British policies and attitudes. The most significant of his literary works of this period were his pamphlets "Loyal Mohammadans of India" and "Cause of Indian Revolt."
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