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Aligarh

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Aligarh (əlēgŭr`), city (1991 pop. 480,520), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. A district administrative headquarters and an important agricultural trade center, it also has a number of processing plants for agricultural goods. It is famous chiefly for Aligarh Muslim university, opened in 1875 as Anglo-Oriental College, which is the leading school for Indian Muslims. The city, whose native name is Koil, has ancient Buddhist remains and many Muslim buildings.
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A teacher from Aligarh Muslim University devised a gateway to library and information resources (Library and Information Science Gateway, 2005).
Knowledge-sharing activities in India by Rao, N. Laxman / Library Trends
Kirmani, Mahmoud Zaki, Honorary Secretary of the Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science, Aligarh, India.
Some important questions concerning the relationship between science ... by Golshani, Mehdi / Islam & Science
It is also a valuable addition to the historiography of Islam in northern India, and certainly deserves to be placed alongside such seminal work as Gail Minault's study of the Khilafat movement, Barbara Metcalfs study of Muslim revivalism in the nineteenth century, Richard Eaton's analysis of the spread of Islam in Bengal, David Lelyveld's study of Aligarh, and Robinson 's own work on Muslim separatism in India.
The 'Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in South Asia. (Book ... by Sen, Satadru / Pacific Affairs
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