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Religious affiliation(s)
  
Founded
  
1696

Phone
  
033 5539 1296

Number of students
  
2,000

Established
  
1949

Status
  
Open

Motto
  
Find a Way or Make One

Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School

School type
  
Government Aided, State School

Address
  
DB Gupta Road, Ajmeri Gate, New Delhi, Delhi 110006

Anglo arabic senior secondary school


The Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School, commonly known as Anglo Arabic School, is a co-educational government aided school 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.

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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.

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Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School Wikipedia