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articles, brochures and books written by Englishmen one opened, they were found to be full of calumnies against the Muslims,"5 and Syed Ahmad Khan began to publish in a serial form the episodes in the life of thosewho had stood by the British during the dark days of the Mutiny.
1 QUESTION OF SCRIPT AND LANGUAGE IF there was a certain partiality towards his co-religionists in his series The Loyal Muhammadans of India in 1860, it had entirely disappeared in 1866, and whatever Syed Ahmad Khan was advocating then in the shape of political and general education was for the Hindus as well as Muslims.
The change in the Syed's outlook was so sudden and complete that when he spoke to the commissioner of the Benares, Division about the need for denominational education for the Muslims, the commissioner was greatly surprised and remarked to him that it was the first time that he was hearing something about just one section of the population of the country from his lips, for up till now he had not allied himself to· the question of the progress of any particular community but had made the cause of the whole of India his own.
LATER POLITICAL THOUOHT IT was with this object in view that he formed the Muslim Educational Conference organisation, the first meeting of which was held at Aligarh on December 12, 1886, just one year after the institution of the Indian National Congress.