The Making of the Modern Indian Muslim: Aligarh Muslim University
Author: Mohammed Wajihuddin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: xxvi+216
Price: Rs 390
Since its beginning in the second half of the 19th century, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been at the centre of India’s political and social consciousness often for reasons beyond academics. First, it was part and parcel of the ways the Indian elite perceived the changing order of things after the decline of the Mughals. Coming almost half a century after Ram Mohan Roy in Bengal tried to harness the new knowledge and language of the Western powers, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, too, thought