Education
Sir Syed held the view that acquisition of modern education would help in the progress and development of Muslim so he set up a scientific study at Ghazipur in 1862 which established many educational institution at different places. Due to this, application of modern scientific knowledge became easy. They helped the development of the Urdu language because modern subjects were translated into it.
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