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Who was the founder of the Aligarh Movement? What were its objectives?                    

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(a) Sayyid Ahmed Khan was the founder of the Aligarh Movement. He also established the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875 at Aligarh. It later became Aligarh Muslim University.

(b) The objectives of the Aligarh Movement were:

(i) The movement tried to promote educational reformation among the people of Muslims community. It offered modern education and western science to Muslims.

(ii) Another objective of the movement was to reinterpret the teachings of Islam and bring the Muslims in harmony with modern science and philosophy