Sir Syed had been reared in the finest traditions of Muslim élite culture and was aware of the steady decline of Muslim political power across India. The animosity between the British and Muslims before and after the rebellion (Independence War) of 1857 threatened to marginalise Muslim communities across India for many generations.Sir Syed intensified his work to promote co-operation with British authorities‚ promoting loyalty to the Empire amongst Indian Muslims. Committed to working for the upliftment
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step in‚ refusing permission to build a temple or to use it as a place of worship. According to the District Gazetteer Faizabad 1905‚ "up to this time (1855)‚ both the Hindus and Muslims used to worship in the same building. But since the Mutiny (1857)‚ an outer enclosure has been put up in front of the Masjid and the Hindus forbidden access to the inner yard‚ make the offerings on a platform (chabootra)‚ which they have raised in the outer one." Efforts in 1883 to construct a temple on this
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Cheru‚ Mick Linton‚ Sean Martin‚ and Jordan Mullens Facts about William Howard Taft Taft was the 27th President of the United States. He served as President after Theodore Roosevelt. Taft only served one term from 1908-1912 He was born in 1857 and died in 1930. Taft went to Yale like his father‚ and graduated second of his class. Taft had 5 other siblings‚ and his parents and ancestors were all in the business of law. More Facts about Taft Taft was a whopping 335 pounds and 5’11’’
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Clarence was born on April 18‚ 1857. After graduating from Allegheny College and the University of Michigan Law School‚ Darrow passed the bar exam in 1878. He became a small-town lawyer and practiced for the following nine years. He moved to Chicago in 1887‚ to look for more interesting
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Jay Gould was born on May 27‚ 1836 in Roxboro‚ New York. His parents were Mary More and John Burr Gould. As a child‚ Gould studied at local schools and the Hobart Academy in New York. His father was a farmer but Gould decided not to follow his footsteps. Jay Gould’s first job was working as a bookkeeper for a blacksmith. While working for the blacksmith he was able to see how the business world worked. The blacksmith then started to offer Gould half interest in the blacksmith shop. As Jay grew
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exchange for a Congressional guarantee no restrictions on slavery would be placed on the territories of Utah or New Mexico and passage of the Fugitive Slave Act‚ which required citizens of all states to return any runaway slaves to their masters. In 1857‚ the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in territories‚ as part of the decision in the Dred Scott case. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the 36-30 dividing line for slavery in the Louisiana Purchase area. I
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The Australian Scene The Catholic Church began in Australia on 26 January 1788‚ when the first Catholics arrived in Sydney Harbor with the first fleet. The first Catholics were neither priests‚ neither brothers nor nuns‚ in fact‚ they were no regular priests here for the first 38 years of European settlement. The first Catholics- English‚ Scottish and Irish- were lay people. From the beginning the Catholics were poor. They were migrants‚ usually uneducated and most were convicts. From the beginning
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the knowledge Malcolm gained from reading‚ he is proud to have proved Arnold Toynbee wrong. Toynbee stated that Africa was the only continent to produce no history. Malcolm however‚ states Africa did posses history; it simply was not recorded. “In 1857‚ some of the desperate people from India finally mutinied- and expecting the African Slave trade‚ nowhere in history recorded anymore unnecessary bestial and ruthless human carnage than the British suppression of the non-white Indian people.” Finally
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India by a holy man named Nanak‚ sought to blend Islamic and Hindu beliefs Babur- claimed descent from Genghis Kahn and Tamerlane‚ military genius‚ poet‚ and author of a detailed book of memoirs Mughal- dynasty set up by Babur which ruled from 1526-1857 Akbar- chief builder of the Mughal Empire‚ Babur’s grandson Nur Jahan-Jahangir’s wife who was a shrewd political leader and was the most powerful woman in Indian history until the twentieth century Shah Jahan- Akbar’s grandson who reigned at the
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Joe Brown and Will Snelling‚ who travelled west up Minnehaha Creek by canoe. In the late 1850s‚ ginseng became a major commodity that played a critical role in the economy of the region‚ particularly during the financial depression of the Panic of 1857. Before 1852‚ Lake Minnetonka was not presented on maps‚ but thanks to Governor Ramsey‚ who visited the lake and saw the potential for settlement in the region‚ Lake Minnetonka appeared on a map for the first time. That same year‚ a dam was created
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