Siddons Union Club, commonly referred to as 'The Siddons Union', was established in the year 1884 at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, the present day Aligarh Muslim University.[1] The club was named after Henry George Impey Siddons, the first principal of the college. the Siddons Debating Union Hall, the debating chamber, was constructed which consist of a debating hall, a library and a reading room.[2] The Cambridge Union Society gave birth to debating societies of the prominent universities of the world namely Oxford Union, Yale Political Union. Siddons Union Club hosted a number of National and International Politicians, Writers, Nobel Laureates, Players, and Journalists, including the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Jawahar Lal Nehru.[3]
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Aga Khan III
Sheikh Abdullah
Raja Jai Kishan Das
Sahibzada Aftab Ahmad Khan
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Zakaullah Dehlvi
Khwaja Muhammad Yusuf
Abdul Majeed Khwaja
Mahendra Singh of Patiala
Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan
Muzammilullah Khan
Ross Masood
Ziauddin Ahmad
Raja Sivaprasad
Chiragh Ali
Syed Mahmood
Hasrat Mohani
Shibli Nomani
Altaf Hussain Hali
Syed Ameer Ali
Tufail Ahmad Manglori
Thomas Walker Arnold
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Zafar Ali Khan
Shaukat Ali
Mohammad Ali Jauhar
Syed Nabiullah
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Abdul Haq
Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram
Shah Muhammad Sulaiman
Khwaja Salimullah
Mian Muhammad Shafi
Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur
Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh
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Minto Circle School
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Siddons Union Club
Jamia Millia Islamia
AMU Students’ Union
Maulana Azad Library
Khuda Bakhsh Oriental library
Publications
The Aligarh Institute Gazette
Tehzeeb-ul-Akhlaq
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Khilafat Movement
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^Calcutta University, Commission (1919). Calcutta University Commission - Report Volume XII(PDF) (Volume XII ed.). Calcutta University Commission. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
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