Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was a Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India.
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Nawab Bahadur QaziAbdul Latif was a Bengali Muslim aristocrat, educator and social worker. His title, Nawab was awarded by the British in 1880. He was one of the first Muslims in 19th-century India to embrace the idea of modernisation.
Bulandshahr, formerly Baran, is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Akhter Husain, HPk, OBE, was a senior statesman and civil servant of Pakistan. He was appointed Governor of West Pakistan in September 1957 succeeding Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani and then continued in this office during the regime of General Muhammad Ayub Khan until April 1960.
Brajendranath Dey was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.
Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta was a British Indian civil servant, the sixth Indian member of the Indian Civil Service, a barrister-at-law, a prominent Bengali social reformer of the 19th century and leading Brahmo Samaj personality.
Justice Syed Mahmood was Puisne Judge of the High Court, in the North-Western Provinces of British India from 1887 to 1893, after having served in the High Court in a temporary capacity as officiating judge on four previous periods since 1882.
John Faithfull Fleet C.I.E was an English civil servant with the Indian Civil Service and became known as a historian, epigraphist and linguist. His research in Indian epigraphy and history, conducted in India over a thirty-year period, is published in books including Pali, Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions, The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of The Bombay Presidency from the earliest historical times to the Musalman Conquest, and The Inscriptions of The Early Gupta Kings and their Successors. He was a regular contributor to works journals covering Indian history. His published well-regarded works on inscriptions in the Sanskrit, Pali and Kannada languages and on the history of dynasties such as the Guptas, Kadambas, Aulikaras, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas and Seunas.
Birendra Narayan Chakraborty was an Indian civil servant, politician and the second governor of Haryana.
The Aligarh Institute Gazette was the first multilingual journal of India, introduced, edited, and published in 1866 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan which was read widely across the country. Theodore Beck later became its editor. In 1921, it was renamed the Muslim University Gazette, then later Aligarh Muslim University Gazette and AMU Gazette.
Sir Edward Arthur Henry Blunt, ICS, was a British civil servant in India during the British Raj and a scholarly writer.
Kadangalathil Karunakaran Nayar or Kadangalathil Karuna Karan Nair was an Indian Bureaucrat and politician who was a member of the Lok Sabha. He played a crucial role in Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi dispute.
Khan Bahadur – a compound of Khan "Leader" and Bahadur "Brave" – was a honorary title in British India conferred on Indian subjects who were adherents of Islam or Zoroastrianism. The equivalent title for Hindus, Buddhists and Indian Christians was Rao Bahadur/Rai Bahadur and Sardar Bahadur for Sikhs. The title of Khan Bahadur was one degree higher than the title of Khan Sahib.
Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, initially as a primary school, with the intention of turning it to a college level institution. It was inspired by the Cambridge education system. It started operations on Queen Victoria's 56th birthday, 24 May 1875.
Valluri Kameswara Rao was an Indian Civil Service officer and Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh, and the oldest living officer of the Indian Civil Service at the time of his death. He served in the civil service of the British Raj as a collector and magistrate. After Independence Rao joined the Indian government's finance department and transferred into the newly founded Indian Administrative Service. He transferred to Andhra State after it was founded in 1953. After the founding of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 Rao became that state's first secretary of public works. He later served the central government on the Planning Commission before returning to Andhra Pradesh as its chief secretary. Rao was principal secretary to the President of India Neelam Sanjiva Reddy from 1981 to 1982.
Frederic Salmon Growse was a British civil servant of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Hindi scholar, archaeologist and collector, who served in Mainpuri, Mathura, Bulandshahr and Fatehpur during British rule in India.
The clock tower at Meerut, India, also known as the Meerut Ghantaghar and Subhash Chandra Dwar, is a clock tower completed in 1914. It serves as a gateway between the market and Meerut City railway station.
Abul Hasan Quraishi was a member of the ICS. He had a long and distinct career in the Civil Service by serving the governments in India and the newly born Pakistan government after the partition of India.
Manzoor Alam Quraishi or M. A Quraishi was a member of the Indian Civil Service from the batch of 1941 and Uttar Pradesh Cadre soon after the Government of India Act 1935. He had a long and distinguishable career in civil service in India and was one of the few Muslim ICS members opting for India as opposed to Pakistan at the Partition of India 1947.
