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- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan:
- He founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh in the year 1875.
- He founded the Scientific Society of Aligarh in 1864.
- He was regarded as the architect of the two-nation theory.
- He emphasized on modern scientific education for Muslims.
- Dr. Zakir Hussain:
- He was the first Muslim president of India.
- He was the second vice president of India.
- He was the third President of India.
- He received the Padma Vibhushan in the year l954 and Bharat Ratna in the year 1963.
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad:
- He was the first education minister of independent India from 1947 to 1958.
- He was posthumously awarded 'Bharat Ratna' in the year 1992.
- He started a weekly journal in Urdu called Al-Hilal to increase the revolutionary recruits amongst the Muslims.
- He adopted the pen name, Azad.
- Maulana Hasrat Mohani:
- He was the first person to demand ‘Poorna Swaraj’ for India at the Ahmedabad session of the INC in 1921.
- He gave the slogan Inquilab Zindabad in 1921.
- He was the chairman of the reception committee of the first Indian communist conference held in 1925.
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