| Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School Anglo Arabic School |
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| Ajmeri Gate Old Delhi, Delhi, India, 110006, India |
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| School type | Government Aided, State School |
| Established | 1949 |
| Founded | 1696 |
| Founder | Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I |
| Status | Open |
| School board | CBSE |
| School number | 2778035[1] |
| School code | 01228 |
| Principal | Akhtaruzzama |
| Vice Principal | Islamuddin |
| Grades | 1-12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 4+ |
| Age range | 4-17 |
| Number of students | 1800 |
| Medium of language | English,Urdu,Hindi |
| Language | English,Urdu,Hindi,Arabic,persion |
| Hours in school day | 5.5 hours (0800-1330) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Red, White and Grey |
| Sports | Cricket,Football,Atheletics |
| Nickname | Anglo Arabic |
| Alumni | Syed Ahmed Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University; Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first Prime Minister; Muhammad Husain Azad, writer; Nazir Ahmed, essayist; Akhtar-ul-Iman, poet; Mirza MN Masood, hockey Olympian[2] |
| Former Principal | Fazle Alam |
The Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School, commonly known as Anglo Arabic School, is a boys government aided school in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1696 by Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I.[3]
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”.
Rev. Jennings started secret Bible classes in the officially secular Delhi College. In July 1852, two prominent Delhi Hindus, Dr. Chaman Lal, one of Zafar’s personal physicians, and his friend Master Ramchandra, a mathematics lecturer at the Delhi College, baptised a public ceremony at St. James’s Church.
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.
Another cultural intermediatory was Mohan Lal Kashmiri, diplomat, and author, who was forced to convert to Islam and worked for the East India Company, who was educated at the college.