#RammohanRoy

“A Delhi judge watched the British hang his world in 1857, told them to their faces that their own policy had caused it — and then, instead of raising a sword or a lament, raised a college at Aligarh that trained the next three generations of Muslim South Asia, on both sides of a border he never lived to see.”

“After 1857 destroyed Muslim Delhi, he decided that his community's survival lay not in another rebellion and not in nostalgia but in modern education — and that this was religiously safe, because the Word of God can never contradict the Work of God, the laws of nature.”