Ziauddin Ahmad was a member of the Aligarh Movement and was a professor, principal of MAO College, first pro vice-chancellor, vice chancellor and rector of Aligarh Muslim University, India.
70 Facts About Ziauddin Ahmad
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Ziauddin Ahmad served as vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University for three terms.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was a member of Skeen Committee known as Indian Sandhurst Committee and Shea Commission for the Indianisation of the British Indian Army.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was born on 13 February 1873, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, British India.
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Ziauddin Ahmad passed high school in first division and was awarded the Lang Medal and a government scholarship.
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Ziauddin Ahmad had to join the Government College, Allahabad, as science courses were not available at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College.
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Ziauddin Ahmad responded by undertaking to serve for his entire life.
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Ziauddin Ahmad completed his BA in mathematics from Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1895.
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Ziauddin Ahmad won the Lytton Strachey Gold Medal in 1897.
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In 1901, Ziauddin Ahmad left for England on a government scholarship and obtained his honours degree in mathematics from Cambridge University.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was awarded the Isaac Newton Scholarship in 1904, the first Indian awardee becoming the first Indian to secure this coveted honour.
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Ziauddin Ahmad became a Wrangler Ziauddin Ahmad was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and London Mathematical Society.
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Ziauddin Ahmad visited Paris University and Bologna University for advanced studies in modern geometry.
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Ziauddin Ahmad visited Al Azhar University, Cairo to understand their academic methodologies.
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On his return to India in 1907, Ziauddin Ahmad joined his alma mater.
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Ziauddin Ahmad became a professor of history at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College and in 1918 was selected principal.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1915 King's Birthday Honours list.
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Ziauddin Ahmad coached students who were seeking admission at Roorkie Engineering College.
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Ziauddin Ahmad held seminars and coached students in engineering and forestry.
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Ziauddin Ahmad noticed Mohani's math talent and went to Kanpur to convince him and his family to attend MAO College.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was appointed assistant master in MAO College and served as Acting Principal for a time in 1913.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was the first professor and head of the department.
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Principal of the College Beck and Sir Morrison proposed that Ziauddin Ahmad be appointed Deputy Collector with UP Government, which paid Rs.
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Ziauddin Ahmad declined the offer in favor of a position as assistant lecturer at the college making Rs.
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Ziauddin Ahmad started imparting post-graduate education in the university in 1916 as recommended by the University Education Commission of 1902.
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Ziauddin Ahmad collected funds to open a Medical College at AMU, which later became Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College.
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Ziauddin Ahmad founded the Commerce and Polytechnic Departments and several other departments.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was elected vice-chancellor in 1934, remaining until 1946, becoming its longest serving VC.
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Ziauddin Ahmad became an honorary professor in the department, working simultaneously as vice-chancellor.
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Ziauddin Ahmad laid the foundation stone for the college and for Islamia College, Peshawar.
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Ziauddin Ahmad recommended students for all kinds of employment, ranging from clerical and administrative to military.
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Ziauddin Ahmad visited students in their dormitories and mediated sometimes violent student disputes.
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Ziauddin Ahmad's goal was to include Trigonometry in High School curriculum.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was known for throwing parties, often entertaining visiting dignitaries at his house.
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Ziauddin Ahmad often invited people for dinner with ever-swelling guest lists.
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Ziauddin Ahmad had accepted Khan Ahmed Khan's thesis that Muslims should not get involved in politics until reaching educational parity with other Indian communities.
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Ziauddin Ahmad approached the university authorities, and convinced them to keep the college out of this struggle.
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Ziauddin Ahmad made great efforts to bring about reconciliation between the members of the board of trustees, and succeeded in bringing most students back to campus.
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In honor of Ziauddin Ahmad, who was now known as Doctor Sahib, the faculty and staff on campus gave a dinner to which college trustees as well as British officers of Aligarh and Agra were invited.
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Ziauddin Ahmad had opposed a popular movement and risked alienating the Muslim masses.
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Ziauddin Ahmad had to choose between supporting a popular movement and losing government support or establishing a Muslim University with government assistance.
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However, Ziauddin Ahmad earned the wrath of people who continued to oppose him thereafter.
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Ziauddin Ahmad introduced a system of private examinations, because the government did not permit the affiliation of colleges and schools to the university.
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Ziauddin Ahmad sent a copy to the Viceroy, to Begum Bhopal and to the trustees.
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Seven years after he had left Aligarh, Ziauddin Ahmad returned to the University on 19 April 1935, as vice-chancellor.
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Ziauddin Ahmad immediately made plans to improve the Science Faculty.
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In 1937, Ziauddin Ahmad proposed a College of Technology to prepare students for work in electrical, mechanical, sanitary and civil engineering and agriculture.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was succeeded by Sir Shah Suleiman, a judge of the Federal Court, who then died on 13 March 1941.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was appointed vice-chancellor for the second time on 24 April 1941.
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Ziauddin Ahmad made an effort to establish an airport near the university in 1942.
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Ziauddin Ahmad proposed to establish a department of applied physics and to attach it to the College of Engineering.
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Ziauddin Ahmad then began to shift his focus from career training to scholarship and the quality of education.
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Ziauddin Ahmad devoted the rest of his time to raising funds for Aligarh's medical college.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was appointed Member of the Legislative Assembly of UP in 1919 and 1922 as representative of Allahabad University.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was elected a Member of the Central Assembly in 1930.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was repeatedly elected from different constituencies and served in the Central Legislature until 1947.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was knighted in the 1938 New Year Honours list.
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Ziauddin Ahmad sponsored the Indian Foreign Relations Act in Parliament.
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Ziauddin Ahmad worked on the budget for the Indian Railways and with the Reserve Bank of India.
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Ziauddin Ahmad stated that no harm had come to the assistant commissioner, that Noor had had no chance to appeal and that the government should say what greater punishment should follow a more serious attack.
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Dr Sir Ziauddin Ahmad, while presenting the idea of the Muslim University at Lahore session of All India Muslim Educational Conference in 1898, discussed at length the concept of a university and emphasized the importance of the right of affiliating colleges.
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Ziauddin Ahmad moved a billentral Legislative Assembly to amend the University Act 1920 to empower AMU to recognize and affiliate Schools and Colleges outside Aligarh.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was an originally member of the Independent Party, which included Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
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Ziauddin Ahmad was a member of the East India Railway Company's board of directors, and the viceroy appointed him as a member of his defense council.
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Ziauddin Ahmad advised them to go back to India upon completing their education.
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Ziauddin Ahmad even requested his physician, Ghayasuddin, to move to India.
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University authorities decided that Ziauddin Ahmad should be buried in the university mosque.
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Ziauddin Ahmad's body was brought to the Cricket Pavilion for viewing.
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Sir Ziauddin Ahmad is a part of the famous Zuberi family.
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Ziauddin Ahmad has four children, including Asim Hussain.