 Hello my dear friends and Chakya IAS fraternity, I Krishna Kumar welcome you all to today's topic of discussion and today's topic of discussion is Aligarh Movement. We will be discussing that what is the relevance of Aligarh Movement and how Aligarh Movement has led to the progression of Indian Muslims. And watch this session very carefully it is going to be very important as questions are being asked from the Aligarh Movement directly in the UTSC civil services exam. Before beginning the discussion I like to put forward a question, question on Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan okay consider the following statements with respect to Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan. The first statement says Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan became a member of the Imperial Legislative Council in 1878 okay. The second statement says he propagated his progress with social ideas through magazine Tehdeeb Ul Akhlaq okay. So the question is asking which of the statements given above are not correct, focus on this word not correct okay and your options are one only, two only, both one and two and neither one nor two. Lock your answers and if you don't know the answer watch this session till the end and you will get the answer. So beginning our discussion we would be starting with that why Aligarh Movement was in news and what is the context of this discussion. So very recently Aligarh Muslim University has celebrated its sanitary year what is sanitary year actually it is 100th year of establishment. So Aligarh Muslim University has celebrated its sanitary year and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed its sanitary celebration and said AMU represents India's rich culture and heritage. As aluminized of Aligarh Muslim University are spread across the world and they take a lot of pride in their alma mater and this pride is also justified here. In 100 years of existence Aligarh Muslim University has crafted and polished millions of lives giving them modern and scientific thinking and inspiring them to do something for the society and nation. And also in its sanitary year Aligarh Muslim University is planning to bury a time capsule what is a time capsule actually time capsule is a object or is a thing which contains history and achievements of any institution or anything which is related to the time capsule. So Aligarh Muslim University is planning to bury a time capsule containing its history and achievements for posterity. So what is the background of Aligarh Movement and the movement associated with Sayed Ahmad Khan and Aligarh Muslim University came to be known as the Aligarh Movement very simple which first to realize the need for establishing a modern education system for Indian Muslim population. So what happened was that after the revolt of 1857 Britishers started being Muslims to be the main conspirators of the revolt why because Indian population or Indian people made the king of India who was the king of India at the time of 1857 and who was the leader of the revolt of 1857 Bahadur Shah Zafar so Bahadur Shah Zafar was the leader of the revolt of 1857 so Britishers started viewing Muslims to be the main conspirators of this revolt and the Wahhabi political activities of 1860s and 1870s further strengthened such such suspicion why and due to this fact an opinion got currency among the Britishers that Muslims could be used how how they can be used Muslims could be used as allies Muslims can be used as allies against a rising tide of national political activities so and how this can be achieved how big and how Britishers could use the Muslims against the rising tide of international political activities through offers of thoughtful concession to the Muslims. So a section of Muslims led by Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan was ready to allow the official patronage to stimulate a process of growth among Indian Muslims through better education and employment opportunities so but Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan was not in favor of curbing the nationalist activities actually he was concerned with his community he wanted that his community should be progressed okay and his community should be based on the scientific ideas a Muslim community shall grow to the as counterpart to the Hindus so this was his basic belief that Muslims should grow and he doesn't want any polar polarisation of the country at that time so Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan was born in a very respectable Muslim family and he was a loyalist member of the judicial service of the British government and after retirement from the service in 1876 he became a member of the Imperial Legislative Council in 1878 and further his loyalty earned him the title of knighthood in 1888 one other leader has also got the title of 1888 can you please specify him in the comment box so moving further Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan wanted to reconcile western scientific education with the teachings of Quran which were to be interpreted in the light of contemporary rationalism he wanted the introduction of scientific education at English education in the Muslim community but he also knows the centrality of the Quran okay and for this he started Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at the Aligarh in 1875 which later got converted into Aligarh Muslim University in 1920 so what was the Aligarh movement the Aligarh movement was the push what type of push the Aligarh movement was the push to establish a modern system of education for the Muslim population of British India during the later decades of the 19th century very simple and the name of the movement derives from the fact that its core and origins lay in the city of Aligarh okay this movement was founded in the Aligarh so its name has also derived from the place Aligarh so this is why this is known as the Aligarh movement and the foundation of Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was laid in 1875 so what are the impacts of Aligarh movement actually Aligarh Muslim University is the creation of this movement only and the Aligarh movement has made a weighty and lasting contribution to the political emancipation of the Muslims Muslims got emancipated through this movement how by the introduction of scientific education by the introduction of rational ideas and by putting the Quran into the contemporary realism method and the Aligarh movement introduced a new trend in Urdu literature and there was also an impact that Devbandh school was organized Devbandh school was organized by the orthodox section of the Muslim Muslim Ulema and Devbandh school was revivalist in nature who want to revive the originality of the Muslim Muslims but Aligarh movement was reformist in nature so they both were divergent from each other so Devbandh school was formed to oppose the Aligarh movement and there was also fatwa issued by the Devbandh school against the Sayyed Ahmad Khan so discussing further what are the objectives of the Aligarh movement at that time okay it aimed at spreading modern education it aimed at spreading modern education among Muslims but without weakening their allegiance to Islam or Quran and it also aimed at social reforms among Muslims what type of social reforms relating to Pardah, polygyny, widow remarriage, women's education, slavery, divorce etc okay so followers of the movement was seeking to harmonize Islam with modern liberal culture while keeping central focus on the Quran so coming back to our question after this discussion the answer of the question would become very clear to you that the statement says consider the following statement with respect to Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan the first statement says Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan became a member of the Imperial Legislative Council in 1878 true second statement says he propagated his progress in social ideas through magazine Tahdeeb Ul Akhla this statement is also true but the question is asking not correct so the answer would be D neither one nor two so now concluding our discussion I want to put a stone plate in front of you a stone plate in front of you which is actually in a legal Muslim University and it is the last message of Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan who said that oh my dear children you have reached a particular stage while he was saying this he meant that freedom is achieved and you have reached a particular stage and remember one thing that when I undertook the task there was criticism all around I used me even Fatwa Fatwa was issued against him okay there was criticism all around me abuses were hurled upon me life had become so difficult for me that I aged before my age I lost my hair my eyesight but not my vision what was his vision his vision was the emancipation of Muslim community the progression of Muslim community but not my vision my vision never dimmed my determination never failed I built this institution for you and I'm sure you will carry the light of this institution for and why till darkness disappears from all around so this was the illegal movement I hope you got the relevant points from this discussion so with this I take your leave will meet again with new topic till then keep learning keep growing and enjoy the life thank you don't forget to like share and subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon to never miss an update