Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu
| Founded at | Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh in India, in 1903 |
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| Type | Urdu Literary Organization |
| Legal status | Non-Government Organization (NGO) |
| Purpose | To promote the Urdu language |
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(Founders and Pioneers) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Allama Shibli Nomani Maulvi Abdul Haq (Baba-i-Urdu) |
Anjuman Taraqqī-yi-Urdū (Urdu: انجُمن ترقئ اُردو) is a premier organization working for the promotion and dissemination of Urdu language, literature and culture in Pakistan and India. "The Anjuman-i Taraqqi- Urdu (henceforth called, the Anjuman) is the largest Urdu scholarly promotional association in South Asia."
The organization owes its origin to the All India Muslim Educational Conference, set up by the great social reformer and educationist Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1886, with the assistance of Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk. The basic objective of the above-mentioned Conference was to encourage Indian Muslims to adopt modern education, and for this purpose, establish schools and colleges along the lines of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (later known as Aligarh Muslim University).
The Conference had three sections: Women’s Education, Educational Census and Schools. In a later Conference held in 1903, three more branches were added: Social Reform, Shoba-yi-Taraqqī-yi-Urdū and Miscellaneous. It is to the Shoba-yi-Taraqqī-yi-Urdū that the current Anjuman traces its origins. Incidentally, Thomas Walker Arnold was the first elected President of the Shoba-yi-Taraqqī-yi-Urdū and the noted writer Allama Shibli Nomani was the first Secretary. These were some of the renowned personalities that worked so hard to create the Anjuman and people continue to draw inspiration from them even today.
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