![]() After the rebellion, he penned the booklet The Causes of the Indian Mutiny – a daring critique, at the time, of various British policies that he blamed for causing the revolt. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857, he remained loyal to the British Raj and was noted for his actions in saving European lives. ![]() In 1838, Syed Ahmad entered the service of East India Company and went on to become a judge at a Small Causes Court in 1867, retiring from 1876. He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889. Born into a family with strong debts to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied the Quran and Sciences within the court. Though initially espousing Hindu-Muslim unity, he became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI FRAS (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898 also Sayyid Ahmad Khan) was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India.
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