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Aligarh

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A·li·garh  (l-gär, äl-gr)
A city of north-central India southeast of Delhi. It is noted for its university, established in 1875 as Anglo-Oriental College. Population: 667,000.

Aligarh [ˌɑːlɪˈgɜː ˌælɪ-]
n
(Placename) a city in N India, in W Uttar Pradesh, with a famous Muslim university (1920). Pop.: 480 520 (1991)


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A teacher from Aligarh Muslim University devised a gateway to library and information resources (Library and Information Science Gateway, 2005).
Kirmani, Mahmoud Zaki, Honorary Secretary of the Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science, Aligarh, India.
It is also a valuable addition to the historiography of Islam in northern India, and certainly deserves to be placed alongside such seminal work as Gail Minault's study of the Khilafat movement, Barbara Metcalfs study of Muslim revivalism in the nineteenth century, Richard Eaton's analysis of the spread of Islam in Bengal, David Lelyveld's study of Aligarh, and Robinson 's own work on Muslim separatism in India.
 
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