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Anwar-ul-Uloom College, founded at Hyderabad in 1953, was a principal community-founded institution of higher Urdu learning in the Deccan. It was established by the Anwarul Uloom Educational Association, a Hyderabad body formed in 1909 in the same wider movement for Urdu-medium education that had produced the Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu — the influential society for the advancement of Urdu founded at Aligarh in 1903 and later led in Hyderabad by Imadul-Mulk Sayyid Husain Bilgrami and his circle. The college grew on the Mallepally quarter of the old city into a full degree-granting institution and, more recently, an engineering and management institution. It stands as the community's own complement to the state-founded Osmania.[1]
The Association
The Anwarul Uloom Educational Association and the wider Urdu-reform movement
The Anwarul Uloom Educational Association was formed at Hyderabad in 1909, part of the same era of community organising for Urdu-medium education that produced the Aligarh-founded Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu in 1903. Four decades later, the Association founded Anwar-ul-Uloom College, which became the largest of its educational undertakings in the city.[1]
The college
An Osmania-affiliated college built around Urdu letters and Islamic studies
Established in 1953 in a modest but dignified institutional manner on Mallepally, the college taught the standard Osmania syllabus in Urdu and later in English, with a particular strength in Urdu literature and Islamic studies. It produced several generations of Urdu writers and journalists of the city.
Continuing life
One of the largest community-run educational complexes of the city
Now run by the Anwar-ul-Uloom Educational Society as a federation of arts, science, commerce, engineering, pharmacy and management colleges, it remains one of the largest community-managed educational complexes of Hyderabad.[1]
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