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Syed Ahmad Khan

1817 - 1898

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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India. Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement. Born into a family with strong ties to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied science and the Quran within the court. He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Syed Ahmad Khan is the 60th most popular social activist (up from 106th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from India (up from 106th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Social Activist.

Syed Ahmad Khan was a Muslim reformer who founded the Aligarh Muslim University. He was a proponent of Western education, and his work led to the founding of the Muslim University of Aligarh.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 60 out of 840. Before him are Hassan al-Banna, Harriet Tubman, Witold Pilecki, Yemelyan Pugachev, Frantz Fanon, and Dominique Pire. After him are Kim Hyong-jik, Gerald Durrell, Carl von Ossietzky, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Túpac Amaru II, and Angela Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 6. Before him are Bahá'u'lláh, Theodor Mommsen, Henry David Thoreau, Ivan Aivazovsky, and William III of the Netherlands. After him are Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Charles-François Daubigny, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Carl Nägeli, and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen. Among people deceased in 1898, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 9. Before him are William Ewart Gladstone, Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, and Johann Jakob Balmer. After him are Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Ferdinand Cohn, and Aubrey Beardsley.

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In India

Among people born in India, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 75 out of 1,861. Before him are Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Akbar II (1760), Amartya Sen (1933), Jim Corbett (1875), and Ibrahim Lodi (1450). After him are Gerald Durrell (1925), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), Zubin Mehta (1936), Dara Shukoh (1615), and Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 2. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869). After him are Gerald Durrell (1925), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Kittur Chennamma (1778).

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