Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School

Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School
Anglo Arabic School

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Location
Ajmeri Gate
Old Delhi, Delhi, 110006
India India
Coordinates 28°38′46″N 77°13′22″E / 28.6460°N 77.2229°E / 28.6460; 77.2229Coordinates: 28°38′46″N 77°13′22″E / 28.6460°N 77.2229°E / 28.6460; 77.2229
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
School board CBSE
School number 2778035[1]
School code 01228
Principal Mohd Wasim 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]
Website angloarabic.co.in

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.

The courtyard of Ghazi al-Din Khan's Madrassah at Delhi 1814-15
Main gate of the Anglo Arabic School

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

References

  1. ↑ "Anglo Arabic Sn Sec School", Central Board of Secondary Education. Retrieved 4 August 2011
  2. ↑ "Learning seat still survives", Deccan Herald. Retrieved 4 August 2011
  3. ↑ "Court notice over girls' admission to Delhi school". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  4. ↑ Firoz Bakht Ahmed, "Anglo Arabic School: a three-century old academic", The Milli Gazette. Retrieved 4 August 2011

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