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Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Doctrines of Muslim Nationalism and National Progress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Hafeez Malik
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In the hundred years before 1857, the last vestiges of the crumbling Mughal power in India slowly vanished. When forceful resistance to the British was no longer expedient or possible, the Muslims, who had been the rulers, withdrew into a purposive cultural isolation. Under the leadership of the—‘ulama’ (religious teachers), contacts with the British and Hindus were discouraged and the introduction of new cultural elements into Muslim life was severely eschewed. The result was that while the British were introducing a new administrative system, a new language and a new technology into India, and the Hindus, finally released from Muslim rule, were rapidly adopting the British offerings, the Muslims chose not to participate in the professional, governmental or educational life of the country.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , May 1968 , pp. 221 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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