SIR SYED AHMED KHAN SIR SYED AHMED KHAN SET UP A SCHOOL IN ALIGARH IN 1875 THIS THEN BECAME MOHAMMEDAN ANGLO ORIENTAL COLLEGE (MAO) MOHAMMEDAN ANGLO ORIENTAL COLLEGE NOW IS KNOWN AS (AMU) (AMU) STANDS FOR ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY HE WANTED THE MUSLIMS TO GET ENGLISH AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION THIS WOULD HELP THEM IN PROGRESSING FORWARD EARN MONEY AND RESPECT LIKE OTHER COMMUNITIES AND BECOME PROFESSIONALS WHAT RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY DID FOR THE HINDUS SIR SYED AHMED KHAN DID FOR THE MUSLIMS

SIR SYED AHMED KHAN A GREAT SOCIAL REFORMER WHO ADVOCATED AMONG THE MUSLIMS REMOVAL OF POLYGAMY, INCREASE THE MARRIAGEABLE AGE, REINTERPRETED ISLAM AND SUBSCRIBED TO ENGLISH EDUCATION. HE WANTED THE MUSLIMS TO REMAIN LOYAL TO THE BRITISH TO THRIVE FOR WHICH HE WAS GIVEN THE TITLE ‘ LOYALIST OF LOYALISTS ’. HE MAINTAINED THAT BY BEING LOYAL TO THE BRITISH THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WOULD GET THE BENEFITS AND IMPROVE.

SIR SYED AHMED KHAN SET UP UNITED INDIA PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION IN 1888 WITH RAJA SHIVPRASAD OF BENARAS TO WORK AGAINST THE CONGRESS AND THE MOHAMEDDAN ANGLO ORIENTAL DEFENCE ASSOCIATION IN 1893. HOWEVER HIS MIND WAS POISONED BY THE BRITISH PRINCIPAL OF MAO COLLEGE MR. THEODORE BECK. MR. BECK MADE SIR SYED AHMED KHAN REALISE THAT THE POLITICAL OBJECTIVES OF THE HINDUS AND MUSLIMS COULD NEVER BE THE SAME. BUT ANGLO-MUSLIM UNITY WAS POSSIBLE.

ON 1ST OCTOBER 1906 LORD MINTO THE BRITISH VICEROY BADRUDDIN TYABJI ANOTHER MUSLIM SOCIAL REFORMER ON 1ST OCTOBER 1906 LORD MINTO THE BRITISH VICEROY ENCOURAGED THE MUSLIMS TO MEET WITH A SET OF DEMANDS FOR THE MUSLIMS UNDER AGHA KHAN. THIS WAS KNOWN AS THE SHIMLA CONFERENCE. THE BRITISH HAD NOW BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN PLAYING DIVISIVE POLITICS BY INSTIGATING AND ENCOURAGING THE MUSLIMS TO COME UP WITH A SEPARATE SET OF DEMANDS.THEY HAD SUCCEEDED IN PLAYING THE MINORITY CARD ON THE SHOULDER OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND ALIENATED THEM FROM THE HINDUS.

DEMANDS AT THE SHIMLA CONFERENCE SEPARATE ELECTORATES GREATER WEIGHTAGE IN REPRESENTATION GREATER WEIGHTAGE IN MUNICIPALITY, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SETTING UP MUSLIM UNIVERSITIES MORE JOBS IN CIVIL SERVICES, ARMY AND JUDICIARY

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS FOR THE FORMATION OF MUSLIM LEAGUE RISE OF HINDU ASSERTIVES COMMUNAL POLICY OF BRITISH SETBACK IN 1898 WHEN SIR SYED AHMED KHAN EXPIRED 1875 SCHOOL SET UP BY SIR SYED AHMED KHAN WHICH BECAME MAO 1888 RAJA SHIV PRASAD OF BENARAS AND SIR SYED AHMED KHAN SET UP UNITED INDIA PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION TO WEAKEN THE CONGRESS 1893 MOHAMMEDAN ANGLO ORIENTAL DEFENCE ASSOCIATION 1900 HINDI URDU CONTROVERSY 8TH APRIL 1900 1905 CURZON PARTIONED BENGAL ON COMMUNAL LINES OCTOBER 1906 SHIMLA CONFERENCE AND DECEMBER 1906 MUSLIM LEAGUE FORMED

OBJECTIVES OF UNITED INDIA PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION : SPREAD PROPAGANDA IN BRITAIN BY INFORMING THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT THAT NOT ALL THE PROVICES SUPPORTED THE EFFORTS OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. TO MAKE MUSLIM VIEWPOINT CLEAR TO THE HINDU AND ISLAMIC COMMUNITY WHO DID NOT SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. BRING PEACE INDIA AND STRENGTHEN BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. OBJECTIVES OF MOHAMMEDAN ANGLO ORIENTAL DEFENCE ASSOCIATION: PROMOTE LOYALTY TOWARDS THE BRITISH. STOP POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF THE MUSLIMS. PROTECT MUSLIM RIGHTS. STRENGTHEN BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. OBJECTIVES OF MUSLIM LEAGUE : FULLY SUPPORT BRITISH AUTHORITIES. PROTECT MUSLIM INTERESTS AND POLITICAL RIGHTS. FOSTER COMMUNAL HARMONY.