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Reform happens through discord, not unity, Islamic Personalities, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Personalities
Reform happens through discord, not unity
By Arif Mohammed Khan
Oct 18, 2008

Justice Syed Mahmood, in a lecture delivered at Aligarh in 1893, observed that when the Government established a Sanskrit College in Calcutta in 1824, it did not find favour with the leading Hindus of the city; who asked the government to start as many English colleges as possible. On the other hand, in 1835, when the government announced a programme to start English teaching in all schools, more than 8000 moulvis submitted a signed petition to stop it.

The government responded by making formal announcements of strict religious neutrality, but the Muslim clergy persisted in their objections and declared that the philosophy and logic taught in the English language was at variance with the tenets of Islam. They interpreted the government declarations as a cunning device to deprive them of their faith, and exhorted Muslims to keep away.

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