Word: aligarh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack. The new councils had been given charge of education, therefore the Extremists planned a boycott of the schools receiving government aid, which includes practically all the schools in India. They turned their attention especially to two of the largest Indian centers of education, the Mohammedan college of Aligarh and the Hindu University at Benares. A good many men were actually persuaded to leave the former and a smaller number to resign the latter, and to attend an institution set up by the Extremists called the National University. But the results of the boycott went no further, and they failed...