Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School
| Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School Anglo Arabic School | |
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 Find a Way or Make One | |
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Ajmeri Gate Old Delhi, Delhi, India, 110006 India  | |
| Coordinates | 28°38′46″N 77°13′22″E / 28.6460°N 77.2229°ECoordinates: 28°38′46″N 77°13′22″E / 28.6460°N 77.2229°E |
| Information | |
| School type | Government Aided, State School |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Islam |
| Established | 1949 |
| Founded | 1696 |
| Founder | Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I |
| Status | Open |
| Closed | web angloarabic.co.in |
| School board | CBSE |
| School number | 2778035[1] |
| School code | 01228 |
| Principal | Mr. Waseem Ahmed |
| Vice Principal | Mr. Islamuddin |
| Grades | 6 - 12 |
| Age range | 10 - 17 |
| Number of students | 2000 |
| Medium of language | English,Urdu, Hindi |
| Language | English,Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian |
| Hours in school day | 6.5 hours (0745-1415) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Red, White and Grey |
| Sports | Cricket, Football, Athletics |
| Nickname | Anglo Arabic |
| Alumni |
Syed Ahmed Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University; Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first Prime Minister; Muhammad Husain Azad, writer; Nazir Ahmed, essayist; Akhtar-ul-Iman, poet; Mirza MN Masood, hockey Olympian[2] |
| Principal | Mohd Wasim Ahmed |
The Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School, commonly known as Anglo Arabic School, is a co-educational government aided school[3] in New Delhi, India. The school is managed by Delhi Education Society. Prof. Talat Ahmed is the President of the School Managing Committee. It was founded in 1696 by Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I.[4]
History
It was initially founded by Ghaziuddin Khan, a general of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a leading Deccan commander and the father of Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asaf Jah I, the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad, also known as the first Nizam of Hyderabad, in 1690s, and was originally termed Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan after him. However, with a weakening Mughal Empire, the Madrasa closed in the early 1790s, but with the support of local nobility, an oriental college for literature, science and art, was established at the site in 1792.
It stood just outside the walled city of Delhi outside the Ajmeri Gate, close to the New Delhi Railway Station. It was originally surrounded by a wall and connected to the walled city fortifications and was referred to as the College Bastion.
It was reorganized as the 'Anglo Arabic College' by the British East India Company in 1828 to provide, in addition to its original objectives, an education in English language and literature. The object was "to uplift" what the Company saw as the "uneducated and half-barbarous people of India." Behind the move was Charles Trevelyan, the brother-in-law of Thomas Babingdon Macaulay, the same Macaulay whose famously declared that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia".
Dr. Sprenger, then principal, presided over the founding of the college press, the Matba‘u ’l-‘Ulum and founded the first college periodical, the weekly Qiranu ’s-Sa‘dain, in 1845.
See also
- Zakir Husain Delhi College another descendant of the original institution
References
- ↑ "Anglo Arabic Sn Sec School", Central Board of Secondary Education. Retrieved 4 August 2011
- ↑ "Learning seat still survives", Deccan Herald. Retrieved 4 August 2011
- ↑ "Court notice over girls' admission to Delhi school". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- ↑ Firoz Bakht Ahmed, "Anglo Arabic School: a three-century old academic", The Milli Gazette. Retrieved 4 August 2011
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